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The Wrong Lesson from Budapest

The American press wants Hungary's election to be about us. It isn't.

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Deuce Davis
Apr 13, 2026
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The reception to Viktor Orbán’s loss in Hungary has been treated as a seismic shift, and in narrow terms, it is. He reigned for 16 consecutive years. He systematically restructured Hungary’s electoral maps, judicial appointments, and media landscape to entrench his …

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