Anne Applebaum

Stopped being a democracy. You know, it was, it was a small, lots and lots of small changes over a long period of time. Orban was able to change the constitution. He kept manipulating it. He undermined the judiciary. There was a slow process of taking over the media, which he mostly did through business groups who were close to him. I mean, it's not like he, there was censorship instead.

There were the media, you know, companies would begin to have a lot of financial trouble and then somebody would take them over and shut them down. You know, that was the, it was rather that system. And until we got to a point where it was suddenly almost impossible to unseat him, he controlled all the media in the country. He controlled 95% of the public conversation.

There were the media, you know, companies would begin to have a lot of financial trouble and then somebody would take them over and shut them down. You know, that was the, it was rather that system. And until we got to a point where it was suddenly almost impossible to unseat him, he controlled all the media in the country. He controlled 95% of the public conversation.

There were the media, you know, companies would begin to have a lot of financial trouble and then somebody would take them over and shut them down. You know, that was the, it was rather that system. And until we got to a point where it was suddenly almost impossible to unseat him, he controlled all the media in the country. He controlled 95% of the public conversation.

You know, he took over the universities. He took over all the cultural institutions. And all that stuff happened one by one. I mean, actually what's happening here in the United States is much faster. It's going much faster. The Doge...

You know, he took over the universities. He took over all the cultural institutions. And all that stuff happened one by one. I mean, actually what's happening here in the United States is much faster. It's going much faster. The Doge...

You know, he took over the universities. He took over all the cultural institutions. And all that stuff happened one by one. I mean, actually what's happening here in the United States is much faster. It's going much faster. The Doge...

Ich glaube, es ist nur Musks persönliche Entscheidung oder vielleicht einige von diesen Kindern persönliche Entscheidung darüber, was sie finanzieren werden oder was sie nicht finanzieren werden. Ich meine, ich weiß nicht mal, ob Trump all diese Dinge vollständig bewusst ist. Ich meine, das kind of thing didn't happen in Hungary.

Ich glaube, es ist nur Musks persönliche Entscheidung oder vielleicht einige von diesen Kindern persönliche Entscheidung darüber, was sie finanzieren werden oder was sie nicht finanzieren werden. Ich meine, ich weiß nicht mal, ob Trump all diese Dinge vollständig bewusst ist. Ich meine, das kind of thing didn't happen in Hungary.

Ich glaube, es ist nur Musks persönliche Entscheidung oder vielleicht einige von diesen Kindern persönliche Entscheidung darüber, was sie finanzieren werden oder was sie nicht finanzieren werden. Ich meine, ich weiß nicht mal, ob Trump all diese Dinge vollständig bewusst ist. Ich meine, das kind of thing didn't happen in Hungary.

So this is much faster, much more violent, metaphorically violent, but much rapider. But of course it's going in the same direction. The point I wanted to make in that article was that it's true that the decline of democracy in Hungary has got a lot of attention and people have written about it and the right has often pointed to Orban as a kind of model.

So this is much faster, much more violent, metaphorically violent, but much rapider. But of course it's going in the same direction. The point I wanted to make in that article was that it's true that the decline of democracy in Hungary has got a lot of attention and people have written about it and the right has often pointed to Orban as a kind of model.

So this is much faster, much more violent, metaphorically violent, but much rapider. But of course it's going in the same direction. The point I wanted to make in that article was that it's true that the decline of democracy in Hungary has got a lot of attention and people have written about it and the right has often pointed to Orban as a kind of model.

There's a lot of admiration in particular for what he did to universities. He did something that we're about to find very familiar, which was democracy. Wenn du ein Gender Studies-Programm hast oder ein anderes Programm, das die Regierung nicht mag, dann werden wir deine Finanzierung abschließen. Ich denke, das ist, wo diese Idee herkommt.

There's a lot of admiration in particular for what he did to universities. He did something that we're about to find very familiar, which was democracy. Wenn du ein Gender Studies-Programm hast oder ein anderes Programm, das die Regierung nicht mag, dann werden wir deine Finanzierung abschließen. Ich denke, das ist, wo diese Idee herkommt.

There's a lot of admiration in particular for what he did to universities. He did something that we're about to find very familiar, which was democracy. Wenn du ein Gender Studies-Programm hast oder ein anderes Programm, das die Regierung nicht mag, dann werden wir deine Finanzierung abschließen. Ich denke, das ist, wo diese Idee herkommt.

Also hat sie viel von dem, was sie gemacht hat, in der MAGA-Welt, in verschiedenen Teilen des Advances. Ich denke, es ist ein bestimmter Besucher von diesen Taktiken. Nicht so viele Leute schauen in der Zwischenzeit auf die hungarische Ökonomie. Or Hungarian people.

Also hat sie viel von dem, was sie gemacht hat, in der MAGA-Welt, in verschiedenen Teilen des Advances. Ich denke, es ist ein bestimmter Besucher von diesen Taktiken. Nicht so viele Leute schauen in der Zwischenzeit auf die hungarische Ökonomie. Or Hungarian people.

Also hat sie viel von dem, was sie gemacht hat, in der MAGA-Welt, in verschiedenen Teilen des Advances. Ich denke, es ist ein bestimmter Besucher von diesen Taktiken. Nicht so viele Leute schauen in der Zwischenzeit auf die hungarische Ökonomie. Or Hungarian people.

And the answer is that Hungary is, depending on which measure you use, is either the poorest country in the European Union or maybe the second poorest. You know, sometimes it's the third poorest. It's gone way down the charts. It has, you know, very poor productivity. Large numbers of people leave the country. Hospital system and medical system in very poor shape.