Honest leftists, there are such, are often convinced that only a sincere rightist can defeat the progressives and Vučić in Serbia.
They do not see, however, that the problem is not only in the lack of sincerity, but also in the lack of the right in the basic sense. In the sense of faith in the good in people (and in God), the determination to do something noble, the will to follow the rules...
Ten years ago, I followed the trial of Miša Vacić for illegal possession of weapons and inciting hatred towards the gay community, when I wore a black coat to the hearing. At the door of the courtroom, Vacić's father, surrounded by friends and relatives, got in my face, saying that he would not allow "women in black" to enter. The guard, who had to intervene, resented the fact that I at least didn't take off my coat before entering the courtroom, and fellow journalists were shaking their heads, how could I be so careless, they almost didn't let anyone from the media in.
The NGO "Women in Black" did send an observer to record the trial, but an experienced one - a young man, perhaps a student, in a white jacket. He seemed too thin, almost starving, and as if this was his part-time job, not a political engagement. Judge Ivana Ramić, it seems to me, allowed the police video of the search of Vacić's apartment to be shown. We saw a tidy apartment, owned by a young, well-groomed Vacić, branded wardrobe stacked over a poster with the image of Ratko Mladić. It was the home of a cared-for member of the middle class, on his way to the top of the Serbian establishment, which he reached in the following years. It was the exact opposite of the guy sent from the NGO.
In Vacić's case, therefore, it was obvious from the beginning. In the case of Boško Obradović, however, it was obvious only to those who know him personally, and not from public life. And while the leftists and civil liberals believed that Obradović was a sincere right-winger and jointly stormed the RTS gatehouse and the fence at the Presidency with the exclamation "Ljotićevac, break through", they had a good time in the SNS, and for good reason.
Because the progressives made a good judgment that they are not in danger from someone who formed a coalition with Saša Radulović in the 2018 Belgrade elections. And then he renounced it, just like Sande Rašković Ivić, after she took him over the electoral threshold to the parliament in 2016.
That they cannot be threatened by someone who arranges to go on a hunger strike at the entrance of the Assembly, and after seven days goes to explain to the "Dvera elders" that he is able to hold the attention of the media better than any of them will ever be able to. The leadership of the party, which after 15 years, fell almost exclusively to Ivan Kostić and the board of Niš.
Someone who honestly can't even stand next to Aleksandar Martinović, his former rival from the parliamentary benches whom he almost beat. And that Martinović, if they have already found themselves next to each other on the terrace of the state villa after they "talked for three hours" about the future of Republika Srpska, does not turn his back. To look him in the face, at least as bravely as he looked at Dijana Hrkalović, on election day in Lucani, his home electoral base, where, with all the logistics of the opposition at the time, he managed to win 4 mandates against 27 for SNS.
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