Call me a party pooper, but I’m not as excited about the election results in Hungary as others appear to be. The guy who prevailed was in Victor Orban’s fold until someone treated his woman poorly. And maybe he had become a bit disenchanted with the direction an authoritarian regime is liable to take a country.
From what PBS was reporting last night, the new victor knows his way around politics and “did what he had to do” to win. He knew which buttons to push, which people to spend time schmoozing. This to me doesn’t equate to a new day for the people of Hungary who, based on video of post-election rallies, were over the moon with happiness that Orban was ousted. They best reel it in until Peter Magyar proves to everyone that he means what he says about a return to democratic rule and undoing the damage Orban has wrought.
We know a thing or two about someone who promises whatever he thinks voters want to hear, but then reveals he had no intention of delivering, and in fact was and is nothing but a pretender whose only superpower is lying his ass off.
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