Hopefully all those Europeans in the US for the World Cup who have posted their surprise and delight at what they actually experienced as opposed what they have been told by their governments and media will take that back and share it with their countrymen. They got a chance to see what a country can do with freedom.
Another country Flushes itself down the toilet
Yes it does. And the shame of it is, that this didn’t have to happen. Orban could have built a party with an enduring legacy. But he held on too long and didn’t know when to leave the stage and turn the party over to someone else. Like Netanyahu (and Thatcher, to a certain extent), it became about him and not the ideas. Now Hungary is going to get the same payback politics that Brazil has. Its not fair and its not right but it could have been avoided.
“...The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I think Italy did a version of this law against the
‘too popular’ Silvio Berlusconi.
No matter how many sex scandals, financial exposes or inappropriate alliances he had, Berlusconi remained popular and able to continue being elected to office.
Magyar sold himself to Hungarian voters as an Orbán-lite. Conservative, but without all the baggage.
It’s sure not looking that way.
The big test will come regarding the Muslim invaders. Orbán stared down the EU bureaucrats, and would not give an inch.
Will Magyar be more “accommodating” in that regard? If so, Hungary will be finished too.
It is truly amazing how often people accept liberals/lefties efforts to pretend they are ‘moderates’ before getting elected. It is incredible,,,,,,here too.
Makes sense, just like our two term limit on the presidency. Being the head of a country for 12 or more years is ridiculous.
Doesn’t the 22nd amendment sort of do the same thing for the US?
The US tried to do this to President Trump also.