Donald Trump Is No Viktor Orbán—He’s Well on His Way to Being Worse

Donald Trump Is No Viktor Orbán—He’s Well on His Way to Being Worse

The good news—yes, there’s a little—is that President Trump has not yet amassed nearly as much power as authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, in part because America’s complicated political system has many roadblocks to forestall domination by one person. The bad news is that Trump is moving more aggressively and creatively than many autocrats abroad did, allowing him to accumulate more victories than many expected at the start of h…