"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
@wdlindsy
The problem with Farage/Brexit is that his jolly party of Eurosceptic fools managed to do permanent damage to the UK.
Orban managed to move Hungary to the 5th poorest MS of the EU. That will take time to heal. The deals he signed with Russia will take decades to untangle.
Trump's and the GOP's policies have ruined the standing of the USA for decades to come. Don't start on the economic damage these traitors have caused.
So yes it might be ending, but in the sense of the fire is
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