Since the electoral defeat on August 30, one noticeable change in the rhetoric of the former ruling party is the unimaginable anti-Western intonation until yesterday.
Already in the first address to the public, there was something of a completely infantile need to blame others for one's own failure, so the embassies of the Western allies were immediately called, because they allowed the interference of another country and the church's campaign...
In the development of eligible intellectuals, such an accusation has grown, it always grows, party intellectuals are like yeast, to unimaginable proportions. Outlines of conspiracy theories, bazaar analysis, dramatic tips...
Since the end of the nineties, DPS has been a party that prided itself on the exclusivity of its pro-Western stance. That retroactive idyll was disturbed by the more consequential and consistent, anti-war SDP, then a coalition partner, and this frustration was only visible when the breakup occurred, by the incredible ferocity that followed that breakup. And that without SDP by their side, their own state-building fantasy projections began to grow without limits.
From today's point of view, it might seem to someone that the pro-Western position is the "natural" position of the DPS, but that party entered the historical scene and reached the first outlines of its (at times almost legendary) power in a completely different environment. As the spearhead of the anti-Western discourse in Montenegro, to be more precise. Of course, in their anti-Westernism, there were more noticeable and banal parts of the scene to which the duke and the team from the front belonged at the time, than the DPS itself, but they were a picturesque margin, and they shook the country and our lives. From that anti-Western phase, Đukanović brought with him that populist arrogance that his allies from the West later tried to curb. While they thought it was possible.
That anti-Western phase of the DPS is the time when, naturally, they cooperated best with the Serbian Orthodox Church and its metropolitan. Does DPS reset to factory settings, as they say today?
And, finally, is the pro-Western orientation of that party, which has been visible for quite a long time, really their natural state? Is it possible for them to find themselves on the pole of anti-Westernism together with former allies from the Balkan fronts, and yesterday's angry opponents. Which DPS defeated in the elections, but they themselves do not feel that they won. They feel that someone from the hateful West, as befits, stole their victory. And they've been aiming for exactly that for three years...
Of course, such scenarios are unlikely, however discursively challenging. The anti-Western pole is traditionally crowded in Montenegro anyway, and the current strongest opposition party will probably soon pass the stage of being a puffed-up brat. After all, Montenegro has experienced for too long what it means to be a bad and immature opposition, so it would be important for the DPS in its new role to be up to the task, as they say.
Here's a nice paradox: as easy as it is for the new government to leave a better impression than yesterday's government with elementary decent political behavior, it will be just as easy and simple for the DPS to surpass the power and influence of the old opposition... With a little luck (and if not there will be own goals), we will therefore have a better government and opposition, and that is a situation in which Montenegro certainly wins.
In the end, such anti-Westernism would not be good for the Montenegrin political scene, because Montenegro lost too many decades on the paths of anti-Westernism and dubious nationalism, on ideological and clerical dogma.
But they will have time to take care of themselves. The future of further democratic processes in Montenegro largely depends on what kind of DPS we will have after the congress and the announced reformation of the party.
But before that, they have to get serious and balance their emotions.
Because now the most difficult and terrifying realization awaits them - that it is possible to live without them.
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