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Lmao eat shit Orban
New opportunities and horizons for struggle for the Hungarian people. This means a new fight is starting, but perhaps on better footing.
It's just so shocking that white hot charisma deity JD Vance couldn't save Orban
But more seriously, this is the result of massive and sustained anti-authoritarian organizing in Hungary. Regular Hungarians increasinly built solidarity across different identities and ultimately refusing to leave anyone behind. Orban lost once regular Hungarians were willing to defy the government for their queer neighbors especially. Mass movement building and public protest mattered, building alternative media mattered, direct action mattered, and above all solidarity mattered.
This is big for Hungarians, and Hungarians have also done a great service for all of us abroad. Orban's political machine is a lyncpin of international fascism, and they're going to have to scramble to keep those operations running in much more difficult conditions. Hungarians have struck a blow against basically every fascist party in the Americas and Europe.
chutten (he/him)Liberal commentariat take note: one of the most visible turning points was Budapest Pride last year, when the Hungarian anti-authoritarian movement refused to back down from defending queer folks. Orban's power was broken in a major way when Hungarian organizing reached a point at which regular Hungarians started defending people because they were the people under attack, without concern for the supposed issues underneath. The question was not whether gay love is equal to straight love or whether trans people are who they say they are, but rather who does the regime want us to hate and how do we fight on that front?
On the electoral campaigning side, Peter Magyar's strategy was basically to be everywhere and talk with everyone. Go to every little one horse town, talk to anyone no matter how many fascist flags they're waving, get your counter messaging directly to people, etc. It took like 75% voter turnout to beat Orban's gerrymandering, rigged election laws, and control of media. Anti-corruption messaging remains powerful but you have to get it to people.
Loren Kohnfelder@PallasRiot @jaredwhite Magyar's strategy sure sounds a lot like the mayor of NYC. Perhaps the next challenge is how do you "press the flesh" in a country with 35x the population (US/Hungary)?
Inc Hulk 🧪@PallasRiot Escaping the stifling Orban is hard! No business was able to express support for opposition for many years (tax authorities or other directed damage was inevitable), all university staff had to be Fidez supporters, same for almost all theatres, no art activity got funding unless they supported Fidez.
The young saw through the lies and voted in force - the young are our future!
The young saw through the lies and voted in force - the young are our future!
Sam Chavez (she/they/he) 🌈🤠@PallasRiot the answered are right in front of us: connection, community, & creativity.
We win when we build heart-first people power that’s far stronger than hate & elite’s desperate need for power.
This is a great episode from @rootschangepodcast about organizing & campaign strategy
