"I have said since early 2025 that Trump is in office to solve Putin’s problems. Orban provides a template. Bloomburg published revelations that on a phone call last October, Orban reportedly told Putin 'I am in your service' - and compared himself to a mouse and Putin to a lion. Hungary’s current afflictions are the outcome of this path and these priorities."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
https://lucid.substack.com/p/orban-made-in-hungary-america-and
"The Hungarian people have spoken.
With 37% of the vote counted — results still coming in as this is written — TISZA holds 132 seats to Fidesz’s 65 — one seat from the two-thirds supermajority required to rewrite the constitution. TISZA is winning 93 of 106 individual constituencies. Fidesz has collapsed from 87 constituency seats in 2022 to 13 tonight. Sixty-three percent of the vote is still uncounted."
~ Mike Brock
"The gerrymandered map that was supposed to make Orbán permanent didn’t just fail. It was overrun.
Viktor Orbán — the philosopher kings’ proof of concept, the strongman who made democratic backsliding look irreversible, the man JD Vance flew to Budapest to embrace four days ago — is not losing."
"Major breaking news: the far-right has lost in Hungary. Viktor Orbán, a key ally of Donald Trump and JD Vance, was defeated despite backing from both the U.S. president and vice president."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance
/5
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-far-right-loses-in-hungary
Major breaking news: the far-right has lost in Hungary.
I'm celebrating the news from Hungary with some soul-stirring Woody Guthrie: "All You Fascists Bound to Lose."
A short song from one of Woody's radio broadcasts. (1940's?)Featured in this performance are:*Woody of course-guitar and voc.*the great SONNY TERRY on harmon...
"Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime."
~ Anne Applebaum
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance
/8
https://bsky.app/profile/anneapplebaum.bsky.social/post/3mjd3xdg4oc2l
Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/12/hungary-election-latest-results-viktor-orban-peter-magyar-fidesz-tisza-russia-europe-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69dbf1ff8f08ff62487f805e#block-69dbf1ff8f08ff62487f805e
"The chant 'Europe, Europe, Europe' rising from the banks of the Danube, in front of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, where Péter Magyar is celebrating his electoral victory, is a cry that shakes the conscience of us all. It lifts our spirits, fills us with joy, and gives us hope that this era of sovereigntism and populism may soon be consigned to the past. Long live a united and democratic Europe!"
#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #EuropeanUnion
/9
https://www.threads.com/@europeandemocrats/post/DXC_pBPCCeQ/media
The chant “Europe, Europe, Europe” rising from the banks of the Danube, in front of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, where Péter Magyar is celebrating his electoral victory, is a cry that shakes the conscience of us all. It lifts our spirits, fills us with joy, and gives us hope that this era of sovereigntism and populism may soon be consigned to the past. Long live a united and democratic Europe!
"UK historian Ian Richardson: 'I suspect the populist right bubble is bursting the world over. Trump is a busted flush, Orban will likely be hammered tomorrow, Bolsonaro is incarcerated and Farage is looking more like a loser with each passing day. These guys only offer anger and hate, not solutions and progress.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Orbán #Hungary #Trump #Bolsonaro #Farage #authoritarianism #fascism
/10
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-7d4
"The Hungarian vote was framed by the opposition as a decision over whether Hungary, a country with a long history shaped by its geography and position at the center of the continent’s cross-currents, would align with the West or the East. Orbán had often stood alone against the wishes of the rest of Europe. It is now clear which side of the Russia–EU divide his country’s people preferred."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#Orbán #Hungary #Trump #Europe
/12
https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/good-riddance-mini-maga
"Efforts by foreign governments to prop up Orbán gave his defeat implications that extend well beyond this small country of fewer than 10 million people. The prime minister has been a scourge to international institutions and a source of inspiration to far-right politicians throughout the West."
~ Isaac Stanley-Becker
#Orbán #Hungary #Trump #JDVance #Putin
/15
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/hungary-viktor-orban-magyar-election-autocrat/686777/
"He was demonizing immigrants and dictating talking points to friendly media before Donald Trump came down the golden escalator. Trump desperately tried to keep Orbán in power, issuing multiple endorsements and dispatching his vice president, J. D. Vance, to campaign with the prime minister in Budapest last week."
William Lindsey 
