While the countries are quite different, the political projects of Orban and Trump have lots of parallels. Their two parties have had many connections and talk often about their common cause. Like or dislike Trump, if you want to know with this new consolidated power, look to Hungary. Orban was able to transform his country and consolidate power, in ways Trump admires.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-orbanisation-of-america-hungarys-lessons-for-donald-trump/
In ways that Trump has no hope of emulating given the constraints he faces, which Orban doesn’t.
It’s like tech debt - you can’t just handwave that shit away in the real world, that’s not how it works, but that’s essentially what you’re saying even though you never would if the topic was tech debt.
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