Rikki Schlott: Mangione Case Is ‘The Ultimate Expression’ of a Generational Shift Toward Political Violence

RUSH EXCERPT:
SCHLOTT: “Yeah, I mean, I think that these are very online people who‘ve learned to see the world through a screen and through symbols. And Brian Thompson became a symbol for a much larger system that he was just a tiny part of. But on top of that, I also think that, you know, it‘s hard to look past this generational change in terms of how young people see our liberal system and what it means to reform through persuasion or through legislation. There‘s now a third of gen z who believe that violence is an appropriate way to achieve political ends, which is completely unacceptable. But this is kind of the the ultimate expression of that generational shift. And so you have more and more young people who are seduced by the optics of this young man who went to upenn, who had his future ahead of him and dedicated it to their cause and”