Holding Orbán accountable
Observe submissive authoritarian minds in action.
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Antony Blinken could have been a historic opportunity for US-Hungarian relations
It will be missed because of Orbán. Continue reading
Do you want to housebreak Orbán? Bait him with football
Orbán is more afraid of UEFA than Merkel and Biden combined. Continue reading
The decorative impulse of Orbánism
Dictators love to adorn public (and not so public) places with their own image. They also tend to distribute in some form the leaders’ little thoughts. Orbán managed to combine the two. Continue reading
It’s not “renaissance”, it’s feudalism
Orbánists abroad keep referring to a new “renaissance” in Europe. They mean “feudalism”. Continue reading
Alas, the Nationalist Internationale is postponed again – but they gave us two memorable moments of media history
“Journalist provoking by asking questions” Continue reading
The lack of democratic opposition
Imagine a coalition in Britain trying to sell itself as a viable alternative, consisting of Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon and Russell Brand Continue reading
The Imitation Game
Instead of imitating western democracy with the intent of adopting it, Orbán has instead started to fake it Continue reading
If the Suez Canal was in Hungary
I was looking at the famous picture of the little excavator pecking away at the base of a city-sized vessel and couldn’t help but wonder how the scene would have looked like if the accident took place in the US. Continue reading
Can the militarization of the regime really not happen?
R. Daniel Kelemen from Rutgers has given an interview to Népszava and in it he mentioned that the benefit of an EU-membership might be that Orbán will not resort to Lukashenko-like violence because an EU member state can not sink as deeply into autocracy as a non-member could. Continue reading
Micromanagement and acting important
The insane micromanaging rules of the square meter-based reopening plan visualized. Continue reading
He just can’t shut up
Orbán called young doctors servants, children “public goods” and Katalin Karikó, the inventor of the mRNA vaccines “a Hungarian housewife”. And that’s just last week. Continue reading
