The Death of Alexei Navalny

This is what Donald Trump wants to emulate in the United States

(Image taken from the Wikipedia.)

Today Alexei Navalny is dead at the age of 47. He was a critic of Vladimir Putin's rule who ran against him in the last election in Russia in 2018. Of course Putin won that election, just like he will probably win the upcoming election next month.

In 2020 Navalny was hospitalized in serious condition after he was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. He was evacuated to Berlin, where he was successfully treated. He returned to Russia in January, 2021, where he was immediately detained just moments after he stepped off of the airplane. He spent the rest of his life in prison while the government kept on piling one trumped up criminal charge after another—all in an effort to make sure that he would never experience freedom again.

And now he's dead just weeks before the Russian election. It's clear that his death is not a coincidence: It's a warning to any opponents who wants to run against Putin.

This is yet another reason why all Americans who still believe in the Constitution and the rule of law should do everything possible to make sure that Donald Trump never return to the White House. Trump has long admired authoritarian dictators like Putin. In this speech he gave last year, he said “I am your retribution.”

He has also declined to rule out abusing power to seek retribution if he returns to the White House.

If that's not terrifying enough, there's the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which serves as a blueprint for Donald Trump's second term. You can read the entire thing here or read a synopsis of it on the Wikipedia.

If Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office, you can be sure that there will be American equivalents of Alexei Navalny who will either be thrown into prison on trumped up charges or end up dead under mysterious circumstances, just like the Russian oligarchs who have ended up dead since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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