The Tisza leader campaigned as ‘Orbán 2.0,’ but days into office, he launched a Tusk-style parliamentary coup, purging conservatives, shutting down state media, and surrendering to Brussels on migration and foreign policy. Hungary’s new Prime Minister Peter Magyar stands next to Anita Orban, incoming Minister of Foreign Affairs, during the swearing-in ceremony for the cabinet at the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest on May 12, 2026. Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP. How do you win electorally having lost culturally? For Brussels, when it came to Hungary, that was the challenge. For years, now-former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proved quite the maverick—at...