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Trump Admin's Campaign for Orbán Backfired Spectacularly — and Revealed a Deeper Problem

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Hungary’s outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was hailed by the U.S. right as a Trump-like authoritarian. Orbán, an anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-feminist macho man who self-described as “illiberal,” was the Heritage Foundation’s darling. As foundation president Kevin Roberts described Orbán’s ‘soft dictatorship,’ Hungary was “not just a model . . . but the model,” presumably for turning the U.S. into full-fledged fascism following Project 202…

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Viktor Orbán did not lose the Hungarian elections last Sunday because his policies were too radical or right-wing for his voters. The winning candidate, the right-wing Péter Magyar, shares some of his positions, even softened. Orbán was driven out mainly by the country's poor economic situation under his nationalist prescriptions, by the corruption prevailing after his 16 consecutive years in power and by his attempts to control all the state re…

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The irruption on the scene of Peter Magyar, the 45-year-old man who after his overwhelming victory in the elections in Hungary last Sunday will succeed Viktor Orbán as Prime Minister of that country, is not an ordinary event. Neither in his country, which leaves behind one of its most important stages politically, after sixteen uninterrupted years of the leader of Fidesz in power, nor in the European Union (EU), who ceases to have the stumbling …

In a single month, the president of the Italian council has gone – surprisingly – from being the White House’s privileged European ally to the target of Donald Trump’s personal attacks. And the coincidence in time with the defeat in the referendum on justice and the fall of Orbán in Hungary seems to be pushing the Italian government and Meloni herself to recalibrate their position on the political map. In Italy everyone is wondering if we are wi…

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El Periódico broke the news in Barcelona, Spain on Saturday, April 18, 2026.
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