A few thoughts on the victory of Tisza
Hungarians celebrating Tizsa's electoral landslide in Budapest On Sunday, after sixteen years of fascist quasi-dictatorship, the voters of Hungary said "enough" and kicked out long-serving prime minister Viktor Orbán, replacing him with a broad coalition assembled by center-right politician, former Orbán ally-turned fierce critic Péter Magyar and his Tizsa party. As of this writing, Tisza is heading for a super-majority in the Hungarian Parliament, meaning that he can undo all the illiberal structures which Orbán has built into the state for almost two decades. How did Magyar win? By building a coalition of left, center, and right. By speaking to the discontent of the Hungarian people. By highlighting that Hungarians were sinking into a slough of despond under Fidesz, servants to Vladimir Putin. That a Hungarian leader could kowtow to a Russian dictator after the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 would be like Martin Luther King, Jr. breaking bread with a Klan Grand Wizard. It j...
