When democratic countries jail populist candidates, favor foreigners, and provide lousy living conditions, don’t be surprised when a strongman takes control.

A while back, Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin. After his stay in Moscow, he published a video that showed very clean and apparently safe subways and city streets. And while nobody wants to live under a dictator, the facts remain the same: there are autocratic countries where the trains appear to run on time and public spaces are clean, quite the opposite of what we see in the U.S. and much of Europe.

My wife and I decided to pick up our grandson from kindergarten. What we did not know was that in trying to bring him back to our place—normally a 15 minute ride—it would take 90 minutes to get home. The continuous anti-Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu protests continued and we ran head first into them. We took the normal turn to go home. Then we found police—and a huge truck—blocking our way home. We had to turn around and try the next turn right. No success there. We were shunted back to where we had been and had to work our way out again. Things were changing so quickly that Waze could not keep up: it showed open roads that the cops had closed and the opposite. We had to go around again and on the third turn right we slowly found ourselves moving towards home. We got to the final turn left and then a policeman told us to stop. As we waited for him to wave us on, a batch of protesters arrived. There were maybe........

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