Come smantellare la democrazia: le lezioni che aspiranti autocrate possono prendere da Orban dell’Ungheria
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/nx-s1-5338596/hungary-viktor-orban-democracy
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Come smantellare la democrazia: le lezioni che aspiranti autocrate possono prendere da Orban dell’Ungheria
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/20/nx-s1-5338596/hungary-viktor-orban-democracy
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>Orban, 61, is in his fourth consecutive term as prime minister. In that time, he and his allies have dismantled democratic checks and balances, taken control of the country’s media, civil society and universities, and consolidated power in himself and his Fidesz party.
>The dismantling of Hungary’s democracy is a point of fascination for political scientists around the world — including those advising the Trump administration.
It’s sign of the times that we need to progress beyond countries. Eg, a federal EU is the only body politic that can battle this kind of neo-authoritarianism.
Orban didn’t kill democracy. He starved it, isolated it, then sold the bones as “national unity”.
The real danger isn’t brute force, it’s when control starts looking like stability. When people are too tired to fight and too comfortable to notice what’s missing.
That’s how democracies end: not with a bang, but with polite applause for the man who locked the doors.
First time?- Erdoğan
It sucks that my favorite building of all time is home to SUCH an awful and shitty government
The fact that we Poles managed too bootstrap ourselves out of the almost identical clusterfuck still feels like a miracle to this day. Let’s hope we can prove it in the upcoming presidential elections that this was not a one off.
In a functioning democracy, the legislative, executive and judicial branches must be independent. At the same time, the press must function as the fourth estate, which means that the press must be free so that it can function as a social watchdog.
Any policy that contributes to weakening these mechanisms must be defeated.
Democracy isn’t dead in Hungary, it’s just that Orban saw how it can be twisted into one’s own perversions.
Let us not forget that in order for him to accomplish this, he needed the right people too, the same people who have kept him and his lackeys in power for over a decade now.
Orby, Meloli, Ficus, Trumpster: all these people invoked democracy for themselves, the tought them and their adepts want to express and their policy.
Amd this are the result: they’re dismantling by repealing rights for all, discrimination on a sort of expiatory capron and making their choices without consulting the rest of population.
This is more or less the template that autocrats are using all over the globe.
Kleptocrats in Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Israel, and now the United States have all followed the same playbook. It’s an international coalition of mobsters selling their countries for scrap.