What’s Hungarian for “stop the steal”?

So one (hopefully) good thing has happened in world politics:

Viktor Orban finally got tossed, comprehensively so, in Hungary; despite having engaged in massive corruption to make sure that pretty much everything favoured him and his party, people power overcame (apparently it was the biggest voter turnout since the fall of communism there). This is an undeniably good thing, cos Orban was running the furthest-right government in Europe at least, which frankly gave comfort to a lot of right-wing political mobs across the world… indeed, a prominent member of one of those mobs, J. Divans, who made a special appearance in Hungary a few days before the election; Orban was already looking like a loser at that point but no, brother Bowman had to go there and make him look like even more of one, accusing the EU of election interference in Hungary as if he weren’t engaging in exactly that himself…

So, Orban’s removal from power (and his acknowledgement of having lost, which seems… suspicious? Did Vance teach him nothing about screaming about how the election was stolen from him?) is obviously a good thing… the only question is whether or not his successor, Peter Magyar, is also a good thing. (And is it not also a bit on the nose that the Hungarian PM is called “Magyar”? Like a British PM with the surname “English” or something…) Cos Magyar is a former Orban ally; he joined Fidesz when it was in opposition during the oughts before Orban became PM again, and only left two years ago when some scandal involving presidential pardons finally made him realise just how corrupt Orban was… somehow the preceding decade hadn’t made him realise that fact. And I find it hard to be overly enthusiatic about someone who calls himself a “conservative liberal”. So I’m not holding my breath for too much progress there; still, I don’t suppose he can be any worse than Orban was, and I suspect he’ll piss off a lot of the Right people…

Author: James R.

The idiot who owns and runs this site. He does not actually look like Jon Pertwee.