La destra autoritaria globale ama Orbán – e questo potrebbe costargli caro nelle elezioni ungheresi

Lets hope

This is an extremely naive article that sounds like it was written by someone who never stepped out of his opinion bubble made up of pro-opposition entellectuels. It doesn’t take into account the iron grip Orbán has on media, and the brutal steamrolling propaganda he pushes. I keep saying and people keep not believing it, that by now most of Orbán’s voters live in a parallel reality where war with Russia and skyrocketing energy prices are imminent unless Orbán is voted in again to keep us from being “dragged into the war” and ensure that we still have access to “cheap Russian oil/gas”, and this is more important than anything else, including collapsing social healthcare, education, economy, everything. They’re literally campaigning with “yes, it’s not all perfect now, but just imagine how much worse it could be!!!”

Most of these people have long forgiven him Simion (or even made up excuses). The fearmongering re: war & energy, as well as disinformation and limited access to actual information have been so overwhelming that even if something terrible comes out his voters would forgive him quite literally anything. He could be eating babies alive on Kossuth tér and those people wouldn’t budge – they’d just say yes, pity about the babies, but at least we’re not sending our men to die for Ukraine.* (Not to mention, a huge % of those voters are also extremely vulnerable to abuses of power, so honestly opinions are pretty much worthless at that point.)

*yes, that’s the entire point of the whole anti-Ukraine rhetoric (aside of pushing Russian agendas). It’s all domestic politics, that’s all it has ever been.

That? could cost him the election?

Like , only that? Tf ?

The guy is a Russian muppet/asset in the heart of the EU, blocking and veto’ing anything meaningful against Russia.

That is the least of his problems (or anyone else’s, for that matter)