It's a shame he was unmasked and revealed to be who he was. Luigi Mangione is different than "the Adjuster". No longer do we have a blank figure of myth who embodies legitimate griviences with the greedy insurance companies, but instead a living being with opinions who can't project ourselves onto as much. Everybody can resonate with an unknown hooded assailant that shot a pampered executive who made his profits off human misery; fewer can relate to a buff data scientist techbro who reviewed Uncle Ted's manifesto.
Because we now know more about him, a prime opportunity has arisen for the usual rabble of "political commentators", "citizen journalists" and other armchair analysts and outrage farmers to immediately spin up a tactic which the legacy media they so loathe employs in spades: division among partisan lines. Luigi hits just enough notes on both sides of the political aisle to have every grifter and midwit which follows them successfully reduce him to a one-bit Enemy of My Side rather than notice an example of a reasonable man, wronged by a system which hates him, being forced to do unreasonable things.
Suddenly, as if by magic, discussion is steered away from legitimate problems with our current system and instead dives head-first into the never-ending culture war which benefits nobody except the dividers themselves, making their own dosh off a polarized and angry citizenry with little actual change to show for it. Occupy Wall Street was an ur-example of this happening and in the thirteen years since, it seems we are set to continue falling for the same tricks.
Whether you agree with his methods or not, it's easy to argue that Luigi before he was found sparked a sort of unity which hasn't been seen in a long while - a dangerous kind of unity, because most can agree that in a way, Brian Thompson had it coming for what his company did to people and families. It might have even led to some hard conversations about how we got to the point where CEOs are now being shot in the streets. But lo and behold, the media, legacy and citizen alike, now wants you to hate your fellow countryman again instead of engaging in said hard conversations with them. After all, if you don't hate, how are they gonna make a quick buck out of their latest ghostwritten book or their crappily-written article?
It's a pattern that only repeats, obscuring talks about real problems through negative feedback loops in the name of precious clicks. This is how the ability to fundamentally change anything in our modern world dies: not with the boot, but with two thousand likes on Twitter and ten percent off mugs and pillows.
They should hope the people don't wisen up to said tactics. Though I don't condone it, it is quite possible that if the people do, more reasonable men may find no other solution than to do unreasonable things. And I will say the same thing I do now: the targets of those things only brought it on themselves.