The Daily Populous Tuesday April 28th, 2026 day edition
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AEI’s Dalibor Rohac analyzes Hungary’s stunning rebuke of Orban and implications for other democratic nations.

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flaviu0103 on April 28th, 2026 at 08:08 UTC »

That's because Hungary is in the EU and the Hungarian people had some outside protection to their democracy. Bruxelles constantly hitting us, East EU counties, over the head to be careful with corruption and democratic backsliding or we lose billions in funds, works.

If they weren't in the EU, Orban would have stolen the elections 100% and he would be Lukashenko #2.

PanickedPanpiper on April 28th, 2026 at 04:09 UTC »

It's a good question right? What kind of Autocrat gets himself voted out? The answer might be that even if he skewed the system in his favour, even if he had authoritarian tendencies, even if he had a lot of headlines written about his 'autocratic' rule... he wasn't actually an Autocrat. We have to be careful how we define and use these words otherwise they'll lose all meaning.

FrankGrimesss on April 28th, 2026 at 02:48 UTC »

Orban's political career is honestly a fascinating case study. Obviously his loss is very fresh, but is there any good a relatively up to date books about him?