The Tisza leader campaigned as 'Orbán 2.0,' but days into office, he launched a Tusk-style parliamentary coup, purging conservatives, shutting down state media, and surrendering to Brussels on migration and foreign policy.
By Rafael Pinto BORGES
Нow do you win electorally having lost culturally ? For Brussels, when it came to Hungary, that was the challenge. For years, now-former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proved quite the maverick-at the helm of a tiny, landlocked country of just 10 million people, he had succeeded in not just holding his own internally, winning election after election, approving an 'illiberal' (or, better said, post-liberal) constitution, and safeguarding his nation's border from the Brussels-approved migratory assault.