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1/ I owe Serbia’s students an apology. For two years I admired them but doubted they had a theory of change beyond protest. Yesterday, with riot police and black-clad men waiting in Belgrade, Vučić conceded: “The Students’ List has won.” Studenti su pobedili. Gotov je! 🧵

2/ Their secret was the thing I took for weakness: no leaders. Endless plenums are exhausting, but they left the regime’s smear machine, its police and its friends in organised crime with no one to target.

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3/ Then they went home. Students from small towns knocked on doors in their own villages. In an information space flooded with propaganda, a familiar face at the door beats any algorithm. Hungary saw the same in April.