Serious question: How capable are these people of abstract thinking? The contexts are about as different as two nations can be. Ours has been a representative democracy for centuries, with a long tradition of peaceful transfers of power. Serbia, to put it mildly, was not that. And the way forward for our own losing party was not to swarm around a building and make the people in it leave because that produced the desired result in Serbia, for Christ’s sake. It’s concrete thinking at its stupidest, verging on imitative magic in its hope of bringing about a similar outcome. Bobby Jindal was a kind of reverse prophet, honestly. He said “We can’t be the stupid party,” and all the rest said "Wait! No! That’s it! We’ll be the stupid party! It’s perfect!" And so here we are. JFC.