I haven’t seen any evidence that Hungarian voters who turned out en masse to vote for Tisza candidates regret their choices. On the contrary, support for Fidesz is shrinking! The fact that entrenched office-holders who owed their allegiance to Fidesz rather than to objective, non-partisan reputations are no longer in their positions makes sense. The current US experience, with a wildly partisan Department of Justice, FBI Director, and Acting Attorney General, explain why Tisza needed to clean house in those entrenched positions.
Excellent analysis. What was the audience’s reaction to him? Is the present audience a continuation of the sycophants that he curated over the years? Is the rest of Hungary thinking ‘oh no, not him again’ or is there a strong, malign contingency waiting for him to return? I think the US should watch carefully to get a sense of what Trump will do when he loses power.
I'm reading this as if you had written "constituency" rather than "contingency" ; am I off base ? * * * Your suggestion that the USA be wary as Trump feels himself threatened is, I think, spot-on, although to me the "malign, strong constituency" at Trump's bidding seems more threatening than that of which Orbán can avail himself
I think ‘constituency’ far better captures what I meant. I also agree that our size and complexity means we can only draw so many parallels with Hungary. What is useful, given our President is a sore loser for the ages, is seeing the Orban revenge tour how Trump might continue to justify, defend and defame from the sidelines post 2028, or slink back to Mar-a-Lago and count his billions.
The tyrants who would truly stifle the voices of the young are always ready to paint true democrats as authoritarians. Trump encouraged neo-Nazis to draw pictures of Barack Obama with a Hitlerian mustache. Mao chastised the peasants who followed Chiang Kai-shek, and for his successors, that is the REAL reason that the CCP wants control of Taiwan. Putin's diatribes against Ukraine include references to "corruption" and "totalitarianism".
The bottom line is always who controls natural resources-the common people or the oligarchs?
". . . a political environment excavated, tilted and fenced . . . " -- I don't understand the metaphor. But the rest of the essay hits home. Thanks for the distillation of events, Mr Dósa.
I haven’t seen any evidence that Hungarian voters who turned out en masse to vote for Tisza candidates regret their choices. On the contrary, support for Fidesz is shrinking! The fact that entrenched office-holders who owed their allegiance to Fidesz rather than to objective, non-partisan reputations are no longer in their positions makes sense. The current US experience, with a wildly partisan Department of Justice, FBI Director, and Acting Attorney General, explain why Tisza needed to clean house in those entrenched positions.
Excellent analysis. What was the audience’s reaction to him? Is the present audience a continuation of the sycophants that he curated over the years? Is the rest of Hungary thinking ‘oh no, not him again’ or is there a strong, malign contingency waiting for him to return? I think the US should watch carefully to get a sense of what Trump will do when he loses power.
I'm reading this as if you had written "constituency" rather than "contingency" ; am I off base ? * * * Your suggestion that the USA be wary as Trump feels himself threatened is, I think, spot-on, although to me the "malign, strong constituency" at Trump's bidding seems more threatening than that of which Orbán can avail himself
I think ‘constituency’ far better captures what I meant. I also agree that our size and complexity means we can only draw so many parallels with Hungary. What is useful, given our President is a sore loser for the ages, is seeing the Orban revenge tour how Trump might continue to justify, defend and defame from the sidelines post 2028, or slink back to Mar-a-Lago and count his billions.
I would hope that if we ever boot the orange menace, congress finds the will to pass laws and enact permanent guardrails and lock the fricking doors.
The tyrants who would truly stifle the voices of the young are always ready to paint true democrats as authoritarians. Trump encouraged neo-Nazis to draw pictures of Barack Obama with a Hitlerian mustache. Mao chastised the peasants who followed Chiang Kai-shek, and for his successors, that is the REAL reason that the CCP wants control of Taiwan. Putin's diatribes against Ukraine include references to "corruption" and "totalitarianism".
The bottom line is always who controls natural resources-the common people or the oligarchs?
". . . a political environment excavated, tilted and fenced . . . " -- I don't understand the metaphor. But the rest of the essay hits home. Thanks for the distillation of events, Mr Dósa.