I'll be struggling to find reasons to be if we lurch any closer to the Hungarian model of illiberal democracy.
Hungarian model of illiberal democracy came about from 70 years of mostly misfortune as well as the enormous failure of the Socialists in government.
In Hungary the trauma of Trainon is still alive, and indeed the best days for the country, in relative terms when compared to its neighbors, will for a long time be the ones before 1919.
That Fidesz has been so successful should shock no one. Most of the opposition is a joke, the tragic history of the country darkens the background, and the failures of people like Gyurszany leave Fidesz as the only good option in the eyes of many of the population. Orban is a cocktail of competent and evil, and he knows what his audience wants. Only now is the opposition starting to look credible again.
America has basically little to nothing in common with Hungary in this department; it lost basically no wars in a conclusive manner, unlike Hungary, that ended up on the losing side of both world wars and was vassalized by the Soviet Union for 4 decades.
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