The Political murder of Alexei Navalny: It could happen here, too.

Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison this past week. I’m sure neither his name nor his passing will mean much to Americans or Europeans. Most people don’t know who he was. Alexei Navalny was a political dissident on the order of Lech Walesa, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, an opponent of Putin’s and obviously much feared by the dictator and his regime. In 2020, he was poisoned; he survived that attempt on his life when he was airlifted to a Berlin hospital. Bravely, some might say foolishly, upon his recovery he returned to Russia and was immediately arrested. He’d been imprisoned since, and last week, at age 47, authorities reported his death. Undeniably, this was a political murder.

That ideology that they are the most important thing in the world. In short, we are willing to die for things more important than ourselves, while for a narcissist, dying is the thing most to be feared. That advantage is forever superior. It is, one might say, Trump.