Trump’s team sent JD Vance — the administration’s Christian Nationalist spokesman — to “save” Hungary’s version of Donald Trump in the final days of their election.
It didn’t work.
This was Trump’s most celebrated global ally, the man MAGA world held up as a model for what America could become. And yesterday, Orbán lost by a landslide.
His opponent, Péter Magyar, and the Tisza party won with a two-thirds supermajority. Orbán was forced to concede, calling it “painful.” Sixteen years in power, and it ended like that.
The architects of Project 2025 studied Orbán’s government — his Christian Nationalist rhetoric, autocratic consolidation of power, demonization of immigrants, governance through fear, and culture wars. Trump praised him constantly, and the MAGA world treated him like a prophet.
Orbán was supposed to be the proof that this kind of politics was unstoppable — that once you had enough power, you kept it forever.
He didn’t.
The Hungarian voter turnout was the highest since the fall of communism. Young people flooded the streets in celebration.
We can have that here.