Viktor Orbán Could Lose(theatlantic.com)
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Viktor Orbán Could Lose
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/viktor-orban-hungary-election-magyar/686732/
5 comments
Is that a genuine "he could lose", or "he could lose" the way Erdogan "could lose"?
i hope he does, nothing but a puppet of trump and putin.
Are we presupposing this will be a free and fair election?
I really really really hope this vile authoritarian Russia-proxy finally has his very dodgy suspicious reign curbed. Alas the whole party behind him is part and parcel of what is consistently rated as one of the most corrupt bitter media controlling authoritarian states. It is wild what a case study this is for how democracy can be challenged by total airwave control, by a media that can shape and steer the public. But it seems like perhaps enough gross sexual abuse scandals have finally amounted to awaking the slumbering populous, to perhaps overcome such a lockhold on broadcast dis-reality.
Wildly & not, the contendor is a former insider. I really want to look forward with hope to something, anything other than this "strongman" (a word few such men deserve). Until this recent Guardian article, I really had no idea who, what person and what force, was actually contesting Orban & the elite establishment he represents. Having read it? Still sounds like a dark horse. And as the article says: maybe a requirement when the incumbent controls the media & uses lawfare and mediafare to harass any opposition that grows. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/peter-magyar-l...
I truly genuinely wish the arsenal of democracy included less JDAMs (bombs) and many more means to rise the voice of the people & truth, megaphones for life liberty & democracy aspects. Democracy is beset by the very worst everywhere, and it is a huge struggle of all people to figure out how we connect the campaigns and governments of the world to the actual truths and day to day lives of what people live and what is really happening. When contested by such vile manipulators & deep pocketed interests & media-powers everywhere. The ability to create such thick dense mal-information hyperrealities seems like the greatest threat to the world, fundamentally obstructs any right steerage.
I hope so much Hungary really gets a chance to escape their dark isolated propogandized sick entrapped crafted fiction, and gets to come back to a truthful world. Even if this guy wins, it's a long long long haul to cast off such an incredibly biased apparatus of such wealth crafted to spin such a falsified reality as befits them. I really hope somehow against all odds Péter Magyar can work to restore the basic truthful groundings of this poor beset democracy.
Wildly & not, the contendor is a former insider. I really want to look forward with hope to something, anything other than this "strongman" (a word few such men deserve). Until this recent Guardian article, I really had no idea who, what person and what force, was actually contesting Orban & the elite establishment he represents. Having read it? Still sounds like a dark horse. And as the article says: maybe a requirement when the incumbent controls the media & uses lawfare and mediafare to harass any opposition that grows. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/peter-magyar-l...
I truly genuinely wish the arsenal of democracy included less JDAMs (bombs) and many more means to rise the voice of the people & truth, megaphones for life liberty & democracy aspects. Democracy is beset by the very worst everywhere, and it is a huge struggle of all people to figure out how we connect the campaigns and governments of the world to the actual truths and day to day lives of what people live and what is really happening. When contested by such vile manipulators & deep pocketed interests & media-powers everywhere. The ability to create such thick dense mal-information hyperrealities seems like the greatest threat to the world, fundamentally obstructs any right steerage.
I hope so much Hungary really gets a chance to escape their dark isolated propogandized sick entrapped crafted fiction, and gets to come back to a truthful world. Even if this guy wins, it's a long long long haul to cast off such an incredibly biased apparatus of such wealth crafted to spin such a falsified reality as befits them. I really hope somehow against all odds Péter Magyar can work to restore the basic truthful groundings of this poor beset democracy.