The American right suffers from a chronic failure of knowing what time it is, and nothing revealed that fact more clearly than the recent death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly while serving a long sentence on charges of extremism. The natural instinct in such a situation is to denounce the political oppression of Putin s regime, but the United States has lost its moral standing to criticize other nations due to the criminalization of political dissent that is occurring within our own system.
00:00:30.000The American right suffers from a chronic failure of knowing what time it is,
00:00:41.720and nothing revealed that fact more clearly than the recent death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.
00:00:47.980Navalny, the 47-year-old outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin,
00:00:52.020died suddenly while serving a long present sentence on charges of extremism.
00:00:56.640The natural instinct in such a situation is to denounce the political oppression of Putin's regime.
00:01:03.500But the United States has lost its moral standing to criticize other nations due to the criminalization of political dissent that is occurring within our own system.
00:01:11.940Still, many conservative politicians and pundits like Ben Shapiro took to Twitter and assured Republicans that while the Biden administration was indeed involved in weaponizing the justice system,
00:01:23.160comparisons to Putin's Russia were unwarranted.
00:01:25.440This is, quite frankly, if the right doesn't wake up to what is happening in the United States,
00:01:32.580conservatives will find themselves the victims of a regime that has every intention of imprisoning its enemies.
00:01:37.780Just to be clear, I'm very sure that Vladimir Putin is a very bad man who doesn't care about the interests of my family or my country.
00:01:47.640Whether he wants to conquer the world and establish a Russian fascist global empire, as many neocons and leftists claim, is another question.
00:01:57.080But I'm very sure that Putin is no friend of mine.
00:02:00.960There is, however, an unbearable absurdity to Western leaders like Justin Trudeau or Joe Biden,
00:02:06.620who have repeatedly imprisoned and suppressed their own opponents, giving lectures on the importance of democratic norms.
00:02:12.440The failure to understand that our own domestic political oppression is far more important than condemning the actions of some distant foreign leader demonstrates a lack of ability to make a critical perspective shift inside the conservative movement.
00:02:30.080Americans have grown accustomed to being the global hegemon, and it shows.0.84
00:02:33.940Our leaders assume the right to dictate the actions of foreign rulers, and our political commentariat enjoys pontificating about the superiority of our own system.
00:02:43.400We definitely like the idea of being the leader of the free world, but that only works if you manage to maintain liberty at home.
00:02:53.080Twitter poster Douglas Mackey has been sentenced to prison for making memes.
00:02:57.440More than 1,300 Americans have been charged for protesting the presidential election on January 6, 2021.
00:03:04.460And many of them have had their due process rights tossed into the garbage.
00:03:08.920Donald Trump, a former president and Joe Biden's chief political opponent, has been arrested on multiple fallacious charges.
00:03:15.720And several states have attempted to strip him from the ballot.
00:03:19.500Many of Trump's attorneys and administration officials have had their lives ruined due to politically motivated legal prosecutions.
00:03:26.360The list of attacks on our political freedoms is almost endless and is only growing larger.
00:03:31.380The institutions that were originally designed to protect Americans from enemies both foreign and domestic now devote themselves to punishing opponents of the regime.
00:03:42.580The FBI monitors Catholics at traditional Latin masses.
00:03:46.300The Justice Department pursues absurd charges against pro-life protesters.
00:03:50.220And the Department of Homeland Security treats Trump supporters like domestic terrorists.
00:03:54.160Thanks to the Twitter files and recent reporting from Mike Binns of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
00:04:00.640we know that our domestic security apparatus and intelligence services collude with social media companies
00:04:06.660to control the American electoral process using the same tactics they use to foment color revolutions in foreign countries.
00:04:14.060The idea that the right should spend its time criticizing the democratic process of any other country at this point is absurd.
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