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Trouble in Belgrade: Serbia’s embattled president looks to Trump for a lifeline

BELGRADE — The protests that shut down Serbia’s capital were fiery but mostly peaceful, in no small part due to a police force that understood the entire government’s fate rested on its restraint.

“In the end, they destroyed 186 tractors, and the only big fight — they made it between themselves,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the Monday after the March 15 demonstration. “No one responded to them. We didn’t want to arrest anyone. At the end, we had to arrest 44 guys. Then it was 13 detained because they were either drunk or causing some violence.”

Just two days after anywhere between 107,000 and 325,000 Serbs stood screaming for Vucic’s political ouster outside Novi Dvor, the presidential palace, the streets were dead, with not a protester in sight. Vucic, who has enjoyed widespread approval for the past decade he has governed the country, has now spent the last four months politically battered by protest after protest by rogue students and professors keeping universities shuttered.

March 15 was supposed to be “D-Day,” or the day that would bring the populist president’s reign to an end. But D-Day has come and gone, the streets cleared out, and Vucic still stands in the royal palace that once housed the since-deposed Karadordevic dynasty. After months of trying to