Let’s Learn from Orbán’s Landslide Instead of Denouncing It

Europe must decide what’s most important — virtue signaling or realpolitik.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addresses supporters after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 3, 2022.

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When elections surprise the overwhelmingly liberal consensus of journalists by swinging to the right, you’d hope they would ask themselves questions about how they got it so wrong.

Not a chance; the precooked analysis of their pre-election commentary simply gets reheated and dished out.

John Fund

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John Fund

John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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