revolutions. Navalny is charming and gregarious over FaceTime, even as his grievances are not far beneath the surface. I recognized in him something that I’d felt myself, something that built during my years in politics and the years since: visceral, dumbfounded anger at the circumstances around me—the lies, hypocrisy, and absurdity of it all; incredulity that basic beliefs like the need for a government that isn’t corrupted by moneyed interests should be so widely and fiercely contested; the sense of powerlessness in the face of conspiracy theories in which you’re cast as someone you’re not;
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