Recently, the mainstream media decided to rapidly increase its production rate—impressive even in the most uneventful of times—of sanctimony and cheap emotional blackmail.
But this time it wasn’t to launch a variety of smears and half-truths in service of a banana republic-esque legal witch hunt against a former president to prevent him from running for president a second time. It wasn’t even to try and soft-pedal a wave of violent pogroms against middle America—which were'mostly peaceful’ of course—or to bankrupt them or drive them into mental illness via a series of arbitrary and brutal lockdowns.
No, this time it was in order to work themselves up into a self-righteous frenzy over the death of a man—largely irrelevant in his own country—who American liberals are now trying to mythologize as a kind of Russian George Floyd.
But who was Alexei Navalny, really?
Here are just a few of the highlights of his strange life:
Navalny, who was born in Butyn, Russia, on June 4, 1976, initially rose to a minor level of prominence for his legal career and dissident blog, which was derided by many at the time as being both racist and antisemitic.
Navalny was a member of the liberal Yabloko party from 2000 until 2007, before co-founding the ethnic nationalist movement 'Narod.'
He starred in two notable YouTube videos for the group:
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoc2VmGdfw">one compared Islamic immigrants to tooth decay, and another pushed for But this time it wasn’t to launch a variety of smears and half-truths in service of a banana republic-esque legal witch hunt against a former president to prevent him from running for president a second time. It wasn’t even to try and soft-pedal a wave of violent pogroms against middle America—which were'mostly peaceful’ of course—or to bankrupt them or drive them into mental illness via a series of arbitrary and brutal lockdowns.
No, this time it was in order to work themselves up into a self-righteous frenzy over the death of a man—largely irrelevant in his own country—who American liberals are now trying to mythologize as a kind of Russian George Floyd.
But who was Alexei Navalny, really?
Here are just a few of the highlights of his strange life:
Navalny, who was born in Butyn, Russia, on June 4, 1976, initially rose to a minor level of prominence for his legal career and dissident blog, which was derided by many at the time as being both racist and antisemitic.
Navalny was a member of the liberal Yabloko party from 2000 until 2007, before co-founding the ethnic nationalist movement 'Narod.'
He starred in two notable YouTube videos for the group:




