Michael Weiss

So now, you know, with one vote, this guy, the best investigative reporter in all of Hungary can return home to Budapest.

and continue to do what he does.

And, you know, he said, the first thing I plan to do is report on the new government, you know, is, I mean, I just want normal politics.

I just want to be in a normal democratic state again.

So yes, media played a big role in this.

Just to put this in American terms, and this is not a perfect analogy because the person I'm about to invoke was never a loyalist to Donald Trump.

But if John McCain were still drawing breath and posed a credible challenge to Trump and actually built a coalition behind him to take down Donald Trump politically, would anybody be batting an eye or questioning the fact that he is –

infinitely greater a person to be president of the United States?

Of course not.

So the choice is not it's a fascist or a communist.

I mean, unfortunately, in European history, that has very often been the choice.

But sometimes it's better not to have somebody who's saddled with whatever you want to call it, the woke mind virus or LGBTQ ideology.

No, I mean, this is a guy who every Hungarian sort of nationalist, cultural conservative can say, yeah, he's fine.

And that's what they needed.

Well, and also, I would say that the kind of hiker reality of online discourse really didn't matter.

You know, the Russians were thick on the ground in Hungary at the same time J.D.

Vance was there rallying for Orban, dialing in Donald Trump on speakerphone.

And, you know, the GRU...

group I know quite a lot about.

They brought in all their political technologists to sow disinformation, to push these conspiracy theories, to blame Zelensky for, you know, blowing this up, or the, you know, Mayar was a Ukrainian spy.