Dr. Janice Stein
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Somebody from the center.
Somebody who...
Had credibility because he was a part of what had happened, but stood out and rejected it.
Took personal risk to do it.
And explicitly called out the corruption.
I think people, and then, to me, that absolutely astonishing thing, oh, they had gerrymandering, one other thing, which we've got in the United States right now, where they're gerrymandering the districts.
That happened in Hungary, too.
But the majority is so big.
in Budapest, remember, the final vote in Hungary is not in yet, that he literally, within a few hours, conceded defeat Viktor Orban and said he would be a member of the loyal opposition.
Now, why do I think this is so big?
The midterms are coming in the United States.
We just talked about it.
whether, you know, a strategy is to wait Donald Trump out, there's rampant speculation.
And that's what it is, because nobody knows about what the principal gerrymandering will about boxes gets east in the United States.
Who will do the counting?
How many officials have the MAGA people put in in key races?
And the race, you know, in the United States, elections are controlled by the state's
It's an anomaly of their system.
But this example of somebody who thought he was in power for life
Conceding defeat has to encourage people who believe that democracies can resist these kinds of leaderships.