Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

Orbán lost, and his American admirers can lose too

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Anne Applebaum
Apr 13, 2026
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I admit: I doubted the Hungarian polls. For several weeks before the election they consistently showed Tisza, the opposition party, well ahead. Still, I worried about “shy” regime supporters, about biased pollsters and about the impact of the surreal anti-Ukrainian campaign that Viktor Orbán and his propagandists have been running for weeks. Surely they…

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