As polls keep showing larger and larger advantage for the liberal Tisza Party against Fidesz, the market starts to rearrange itself. Both domestic and international investors and economic figures believe that Tisza will win, and Orbán’s overtaxed state-capitalistic mess will end soon, which would be a massive boon for the stagflation cursed country.
BlackCat159 on
Hopefully Orban loses as hard as possible. Hasn’t the Hungarian economy stagnated under his rule too?
GUlysses on
I’m very much hoping Orban loses for many reasons. Not just for Hungary, but for what an Orban defeat would represent. Hungary was essentially ground zero for the modern era of democratic backsliding, so if illiberalism can be defeated there, that’s a very big symbolic victory. Maybe this could even be the beginning of the end of an era, but I don’t want to get my hopes up yet.
halee1 on
We so need wins from young pro-democratic parties to stop the vicious cycle where broad-based growth is made difficult precisely due to the historically high starting point and social media, and doesn’t have enough examples of liberty triumphing that we saw after 1989, and even the less-heralded, but arguably more significant move in that direction after WW2, which strengthens autocratic and populist narratives over and over, which in turn leads to more discontent down the road.
Trill-I-Am on
What are the chances that Orban attempts to end democracy in Hungary by attempting a hasty coup like Yoon in South Korea? Would he try to kill Peter Magyar? Or his supporters?
Xihl on
This is kinda what it felt like in early 2022 (not nearly as optimistic though)
I’m waiting for the conspiracy that Russia invaded Ukraine just to save Orbán’s ass right before the election
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As polls keep showing larger and larger advantage for the liberal Tisza Party against Fidesz, the market starts to rearrange itself. Both domestic and international investors and economic figures believe that Tisza will win, and Orbán’s overtaxed state-capitalistic mess will end soon, which would be a massive boon for the stagflation cursed country.
Hopefully Orban loses as hard as possible. Hasn’t the Hungarian economy stagnated under his rule too?
I’m very much hoping Orban loses for many reasons. Not just for Hungary, but for what an Orban defeat would represent. Hungary was essentially ground zero for the modern era of democratic backsliding, so if illiberalism can be defeated there, that’s a very big symbolic victory. Maybe this could even be the beginning of the end of an era, but I don’t want to get my hopes up yet.
We so need wins from young pro-democratic parties to stop the vicious cycle where broad-based growth is made difficult precisely due to the historically high starting point and social media, and doesn’t have enough examples of liberty triumphing that we saw after 1989, and even the less-heralded, but arguably more significant move in that direction after WW2, which strengthens autocratic and populist narratives over and over, which in turn leads to more discontent down the road.
What are the chances that Orban attempts to end democracy in Hungary by attempting a hasty coup like Yoon in South Korea? Would he try to kill Peter Magyar? Or his supporters?
This is kinda what it felt like in early 2022 (not nearly as optimistic though)
I’m waiting for the conspiracy that Russia invaded Ukraine just to save Orbán’s ass right before the election