Viktor Orban Was Supposed to Lose So That The Good Guys Could Win
Fidesz's Overwhelming Win in Hungary, Serbia's SPP Once Again Triumphant, Hungary's Growing Isolation Within the EU, The Fake "European Unity" Narrative
To paraphrase an online micro-celebrity, “you do actually gotta hand it to him”.
That him is Viktor Orban, head of Hungary’s Fidesz Party, which stormed to its fourth successive electoral victory in that Pannonian country, defeating a coalition of everybody-but-Fidesz, which had the backing of western governments, media, and NGOs, but fatally did not translate that into domestic support to win the election. As things stand, Fidesz is going to win an outright supermajority (2/3rds of the seats in Parliament) for a second time, allowing them to make constitutional changes where they see fit.
This was not supposed to happen.
Having veered off reservation by refusing to open up Hungary to migrants from Africa and Asia, Orban violated the ever-changing “core values of Europe”, leading to a sanctions regime that denies Hungary billions of Euros by way of COVID-19 relief. This pettiness is par for the course for Brussels, with Poland being another victim of the sanctions regime for having a judiciary that reflects those in other western countries, but which also violates the “core values of Europe”.
Fidesz’s win in a democratic election is a “dark day for democracy, for Hungary, and for the EU”:
Even worse, it’s simply not democracy at all when the people vote to choose who governs them:
Magyars simply cannot be trusted with the ballot box. Ideally, Fidesz should be forcibly removed from power, and only parties vetted and approved by Brussels and by the US State Department should be permitted to run in a new, free, and fair election that will generate the correct democratic result in spite of what the people of Hungary actually want. This is what it means to be a democracy.
Orban couldn’t help but engage in a little bit of triumphalism last night after the votes were in, and listed off six different people and groups that Fidesz defeated:
George Soros wins more often than he loses, but he has been repeatedly defeated in the land of his birth, Hungary. How many more rounds does this fossil have left in him? Who knows? But his NGO/media complex is now ever-present and hardwired into European governing structures, so that even his death might not give Europeans respite.
Naming Zelensky is a bitter pill for many hyperventilating westerners to swallow. Zelensky has repeatedly tried to shame Orban and Hungary for not taking a more active approach in countering Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, going as far as to deny the use of Hungarian land and airspace for transit of arms, despite taking in refugees from that country, and providing humanitarian aid and assistance.
For Hungary, it’s a simple calculation: Zelensky’s hectoring arrogance (not just directed at Hungary, but at others like Germany) only compounds Ukraine’s ill-treatment of its Magyar minority in Transcarpathia. Ukraine, that paragon of western liberal democracy, passed a law on the Ukrainian language that violates the minority rights of its ethnic Magyars there. One is left with the question as to why the Ukrainians refuse to make nice with their Magyar minority since they demand Hungary’s support? It’s a self-defeating and arrogant approach from Kiev.