The Cold Civil War—Is It Getting Hot?

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to stalking and shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—but the larger story is the public admiration, memes and fundraising that followed. Doc G and the Discussants trace the road from Occupy’s 99% versus 1%, through BLM, CHOP and organized socialism, to a politics that divides society into oppressors and oppressed. When a person becomes the face of a hated system, how much easier does violence become to excuse? The show also examines the attacks involving Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump and asks whether America’s cold civil war is getting hot.