By Noah Rothman
Friday, September 04, 2026
I had the opportunity to sit down with Fox &
Friends host Brian Kilmeade today to discuss the ghoulish satisfaction that
one prominent filmmaker took from the entirely senseless
murder of a young mother by a killer who was obviously in psychological
distress.
There was nothing political about that murder, but some
have tried to retroactively condition the random killing of a middle manager at
the Bank of America into a bold strike against capitalism and Zionism.
The episode struck me as vividly similar to an incident I
wrote about in my latest book, Blood & Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in
America, in which a depraved chorus took perverse delight in the murder
of the real-estate-trust executive Wesley LePatner by an addled killer who
thought he was meting out vengeance against the NFL.
From Blood & Progress:
“I’m shocked that
it’s not more common,” one said of the slaughter. “Rest in Piss,” read a common
refrain. “Worse things have happened to better people,” someone wrote of the
deceased. Many who participated in this ghoulish frenzy were anonymous, but not
all. “She worked for BlackRock, a company so evil it has been tied to the
rising cost of real estate prices and rising homelessness,” said
thirty-one-year-old salesman Ashton Deroy. “Wesley LePatner was a part of a
decaying elite and a crumbling society. And we will remember her as a terrible
person.” At one point, Deroy said only that LePatner had been “Luigi’d.”
“All they needed to know was that she was a symbol of the
capitalist enterprise,” I wrote, “and her death brings us one step closer to
the Revolution in which the rest of us will get our due comeuppance.”
The pattern is as terrifying as it is hard to miss.
Check out the segment here:
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