U.S. Democrats celebrated the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday, while Donald Trump’s allies and Republican peers offered a more mixed response to the loss of the leader that Trump had endorsed.
Trump had backed Orban leading up to the vote, even speaking briefly last week at a campaign rally in Hungary, when U.S. Vice President JD Vance telephoned his boss upon taking the stage.
But Orban lost power after 16 years as Hungarians voted in record numbers for a pro-EU course spearheaded by center-right rival Peter Magyar.
The key point for me is that their socialist and green parties stepped out to endorse the new (non-progressive) party so it could have supermajority instead of Orban’s party. In other words, they took the strategic/pragmatic path, unlike the result in the US.
Ooohh…trump is going to be so mad at his vice president.
Just wait a few days… “Why do you support genocide?”
“ Why does Hungary support genocide?”
“Well regardless of what you think, at the very least I don’t support genocide…”
“Oh you have a liberal position that doesn’t support genocide? Well the US totally did support genocide once so your wrong…”
I have said this with putin but knowing trump is an albatross. Putin never did as badly as he did till he got involved with trump and now orbin. As long as he draws breath it will be a curse for anyone who has ever had dealings with him dragginf them down and there is nothing they can do but wait for fate to free them from the curse.
