When crime scene technicians bagged three 9mm shell casings from the freezing pavement of West 54th Street in December 2024, they didn’t just recover evidence of a Fortune 500 CEO’s assassination. They found the source code for a new American insurgency. Etched into the brass were three words: Delay. Deny. Depose. Major networks immediately scripted the assassination of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson as an isolated tragedy – a horrific, inexplicable aberration. Wit