Election loss for Hungarian Prime Minister Orbn has ripple effects for Trump, US conservatives

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6. The article glosses over one major detail

Orbán muzzled and practically controlled the Hungarian press. Very much like what Putin has done in Russia. It is what Trump's allies, especially the Ellisons, only wish they could accomplish here. For that matter, they are well on their way, having dismantled CBS News, and are more than halfway there in making CNN into Fox Lite.

The fact that the Hungarians overwhelmingly rejected Orbán is an event of 1956 proportions with a vastly different outcome. Orbán may have been contemplating some cheating in the case of manipulating a close election result against him to one in his favor. But this was a tidal wave of voters that was impossible to deny. We do not have it so easy. The 2020 election was a tidal wave of anti-Trump voters, and Biden still only barely got in. In 2016, a victory margin of 3 million voters was not propitiously enough distributed to put Hillary Clinton into her well-deserved seat in the Oval Office. The Hungarian election may only serve to warn the Republicans what methods of electoral fraud they need to improve upon. Caveat Americanus.