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@DPRIAN_ please take care and try to rest as much as you can 🖤

Gosh I’m so tired … lol 💤

As the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout in actual practice is prior long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people to understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

USA try not to make at least one thing about yourselves challenge: impossible

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„Moja pierwsza droga prowadzi mnie do Polski, chcemy umocnić 1000-letnią przyjaźń Polsko-Węgierską” Péter Magyar ☺️🇭🇺🇪🇺🇵🇱👍

Köszönet minden magyarnak itthon és szerte a nagyvilágban! Óriási megtiszteltetés, hogy a valaha volt legtöbb szavazattal hatalmaztatok fel minket kormányalakításra és arra, hogy a következő négy évben a szabad, európai, működő és emberséges Magyarországért dolgozzunk. A TISZA-kormány minden magyar ember kormánya lesz. Batthyány Lajos székében ülve, miniszterelnökként minden nap és a nap minden órájában hazánk biztonságáért és fejlődéséért, valamint a magyar emberek jólétéért fogok dolgozni. Isten engem úgy segéljen! ❤️🤍💚

Hungary 🇭🇺 Poland 🇵🇱 Europe 🇪🇺 Back together! Glorious victory, dear friends! Ruszkik haza!

OVERHEARD: For context on how big today is: Viktor Orbán has been the blueprint. The proof that leaders can slowly dismantle democracy from the inside and stay in power forever. His model spread across Europe and the USA. Orbán’s playbook was the literal blueprint for Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation worked directly with Orbán’s allies in Hungary. CPAC held conferences in Budapest three times Tonight that blueprint lost. In a landslide.

Melissa Bell: The crowd was shouting 'Russians Out'. This was the cry of the Hungarian uprising back in 1956. Peter Magyar has won the supermajority of the Parliament, which will allow him to change the constitution. He vowed to return Hungary to the rule of law.

🎯 Apologists trying to credit Orbán for conceding are intentionally missing the point. He would’ve done anything to stay in power had he thought it possible. Hungarians made it impossible. Trying & failing to destroy democracy receives no credit. He didn't stop; he was stopped.

I'm trying to remember who I was before Orbán, but it's so hard. All the newspapers, TV stations, academic departments, cultural projects, venues etc. that I worked at back home -- it's all gone. In the US, we like to criticize the media but imagine if overnight CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post, NYU, etc., all closed down because of one politician. That's how it feels to be Hungarian. There is a lot to rebuild, and a lot of restoration work ahead for Magyar. The destruction -- including in the administrative system and the morale -- had been immense.

I've seen a lot of takes that Orbán's defeat means that he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

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"Péter Magyar" is an almost too-perfect Hungarian name. It'd be like a guy named "Johnny America" running for President of the United States.