Who Benefits From Far-Right Politics...And Its Defeat?
On Orban’s defeat in Hungary and the dilemmas of electoral remedy.
Much celebration in my corner of the internet about the crushing electoral defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary. After 16 years of ethnonationalist, patriarchal, reactionary politics, he’s out.
The reason for the celebration by people who have no connection to this small Eastern European country is simple: Orban was a far-right politician who tried to rig …