Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led street protests.
Serbia’s vote for a new Parliament came just six months after voters in neighboring Hungary rejected their own populist nationalist leader, Viktor Orban, a close ally of Mr. Vucic.
Not really. The developed world is its own beast; there’s no reason to expect somewhere like Serbia to follow the same trend. In general we should expect moderately prosperous authoritarian countries to drift towards democracy while developed democracies drift away from it as the capitalist class in each society shops around for the best deal it can get.
I wish this didn’t make so much sense