So this is one of those stories that starts far away.

But then it comes right here, right home at the end.

So stick with me.

All right, you might remember a few weeks ago, we showed you images,

kind of overwhelming protest shots from Europe, from Serbia.

Do you remember this?

Serbia has a president that is kind of their version of Donald

Trump. And protests against him like this have been sweeping that country. They started small

and week after week, they just grew and grew to the point where, frankly, it has become

hard to imagine that that Serbian president is going to be able to stay in office, given the size and the breadth of the opposition to him in his country and their persistence at saying that he must go.

These massive, very impressive, repeated protests in Serbia are also,

I think a good reminder for us and for everybody around the world that part of the reason

it's not good to have a strong man leader. Part of the reason you really don't want your country

turned into some version

of an authoritarian dictatorship is because authoritarians and dictators are always, always

corrupt. Why do you think they want to get rid of the rule of law anyway, right? So they don't

have to abide by the law because they're crooks.

Always and everywhere, dictators and authoritarian are stealing from the people.

They are crooks.

They are corrupt.

It is an axiom.

And in the case of these huge, impressive protests in Serbia, these started over something

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