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History Repeats Itself? “The New McKinley” Trend Explodes After Mangione Attack

In a chilling echo of the Gilded Age, the attempted attack on tech CEO [Name Withheld] by suspect Luigi Mangione is being compared by historians to the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.

Both Mangione, a disgruntled former employee, and Czolgosz believed a single act of violence against a “king of industry” would spark a worker uprising. McKinley’s death ushered in the Progressive Era and trust-busting. Now, with corporate power at an all-time high, pundits are asking: is Mangione the bellwether for a new age of anti-CEO radicalism?

“This is the ghost of McKinley walking through the 21st century,” says Dr. Elena Vasquez, a historian at Columbia. “The weaponry has changed, but the desperate logic—that removing a titan will reset the table—is identical.”

The #MangioneMcKinley parallels are trending, with users noting the eerie symmetry: a quiet, isolated perpetrator, a targeted symbol of concentrated wealth, and a nation suddenly questioning the social contract. One viral post simply read: “McKinley’s bullet gave us the FDA. What will Mangione’s give us?”