Dr. Janice Stein

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.

And people in Europe and the United States, I think, will double down as a result of this.

Yes.

And, you know, I mean, for Canadians who knew him quite well, his wife is Hungarian.

Budapest is her hometown, right?

Her family was still there.

And he resisted right to the end.

And in order to save the institutions, moved the university to Vienna, where it is today, but would not bend.