If Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships, George Floyd was the convict who lit a thousand fires. 

Helen is a myth. In many ways, so is George. Leftist America mythology.

Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody. May 25, 2020 also marked the beginning of a violent revolution — an insurrection, if you will — led by opportunistic Marxists under the banner of Black Lives Matter bent on dismantling the last best hope of earth. 

A jury would later convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, of Floyd’s murder. Floyd, who, according to toxicology results, had high levels of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cannabis in his system, repeatedly resisted arrest. He certainly didn’t deserve to die. But the convict with the long rap sheet became a patron saint for a leftist movement preaching chaos in an election-year power grab.