"The U.S. right loved it. ...

The international ramifications will be huge. Among other things, Orbán was an enthusiastic Putin lackey, doing all he could to sabotage European aid to Ukraine. Peter Magyar, who declared in his victory speech that 'our country’s place is in Europe,' will presumably end the obstructionism."

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/2

"And we’ve had yet another confirmation that Trump is Midas in reverse: Everything he touches turns to, well, something other than gold."

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/3

"The defeat of Viktor Orbán is a big, big deal. He’s not only a core symbol of the global authoritarian movement. His regime was also its laboratory, its rallying point and a source of funding, a location to operate from. ... This is a big and consequential defeat for global Team Strongman."

~ Josh Marshall

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/4

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/orban-falls

"Trump’s promise to voters that he would lower prices, along with his crusade against immigrants, attacks on education and the courts, and vow to resurrect a patriarchy in which white Christian men would dominate women and people of color, was closely patterned on the 'illiberal democracy' of Viktor Orbán in Hungary."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/5

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026

"MAGA Republicans embraced Orbán as the leader of a movement to replace democracy with an authoritarianism that empowered the far right."

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/6

"Orbán was not merely a foreign leader. He was a model — held up at CPAC, celebrated by Tucker Carlson, visited by JD Vance days before this election. His brand of 'illiberal democracy' had admirers in Washington who argued it represented the future of conservative governance. Hungarian voters, with record turnout and a two-to-one margin, disagreed. The EU’s most disruptive internal actor is now gone."

~ Rudy Martinez

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/7

https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-april-535

"This is a serious loss for Trump (and his Orbán-loving henchman, JD Vance) who pushed hard to keep the Hungarian strongman in power—including full-throated endorsements, visits to Budapest, invitations to Mar-a-Lago and even a last-day promise/bribe by Trump to 'use the full Economic Might of the United States to strengthen Hungary’s economy.'"

~ Steven Beschloss

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/8

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-trump-is-a-loser

"They not only learned that Hungarians rejected their corrupt illiberalism, but also that they did not have the power to swing a foreign election for a despised authoritarian."

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/9

"The loss was especially bad news for JD Vance, who spent time in Hungary last week in an unprecedented move for an American leader, openly campaigning for the Putin-aligned Orbán. The Republican Party, of course, remained silent about that. Hopefully, Vance will campaign across the U.S. ahead of the midterm elections."

~ Joyce Vance

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
/10

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-4b1

@wdlindsy

The creepiest billionaires on the planet bought a vice presidency for JD Vance in hopes that Trump would get a stroke or heart attack.

The Peter Thiel's of the globe are flush with cash from fossil fuel money laundering, ready & eager to enact their agenda.

Ecocide. Air pollution. Tax evasion. Water contamination. Deregulation. Lawlessness. De-constitutionalism. Ubiquitous surveillance.

Billionaires want a smarter, younger fascist puppet, now that Trump is fading fast.