Appearing on Varney & Co., Liz Peek backed Stuart Varney’s call for a moral crusade, citing a disturbing survey finding that 40 percent of young Americans now believe political violence is acceptable if it advances their cause. “I think that’s an appalling statement,” she said, drawing a direct line from that mindset to assassination attempts and other acts of political terror against American leaders.
Peek singled out the public celebration of Luigi Mangione — who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — as emblematic of the cultural rot taking hold. “That is one of the most disgusting political outcries I’ve ever heard in my life,” she said, warning that excusing petty lawlessness like “microlooting” creates a slippery slope that ends in glorifying murderers and applauding violence against executives and public figures.
She pointed to San Francisco as proof that soft-on-crime progressivism fails on its own terms. The city is now reversing course on social-justice-inspired criminal justice reforms after surges in theft and auto crime. “If you encourage people to steal, they’re going to steal,” Peek said, calling the reversal “a big ha to the left” and urging the rest of the country to take note before things get worse.
At the root of the crisis, Peek argued, is a generation indoctrinated by leftist professors and media influencers to view capitalism as immoral and their own prosperity as built on oppression. “We have mountains of data that basically show our system of government lifts people up better than any other that’s ever been in place anywhere else in the world,” she said, pointing to the wreckage of socialism in Cuba, Venezuela, and the Soviet Union. The fix, she insisted, has to start in schools — with moral education rather than guilt and resentment.
