Michael Weiss

And at the end of the day, all of that cynicism, all of that brain rot didn't matter because people, you know,

They want more of a better life.

They want more income.

They want affordability.

It's kind of the materialist conception of history.

That's what drove this thing, right?

And yes, they're exhausted by having their country be the focal point of everything wrong in Europe.

There is no reason.

I mean, Hungary belongs to what's known as the Visegrad Four.

And of the Visegrad Four, I think it's the catastrophic failure of the lot, right?

It was, I think, second lowest wages in Europe, arguably one of the poorest countries, if not the poorest country in the European Union.

There is no reason Hungary could not be Poland.

Poland will overtake Japan.

in terms of GDP per capita, I think, next year.

Poland will spend 5% of its GDP on defense.

There's Daily Mail headlines about Poles who went to live and work in the UK pre-Brexit returning to Poland because the economy is better there than it is in Britain.

There's no reason Hungary can't have the same thing.

So I think for a lot of Hungarians, this is kind of like a Pepsi challenge.

Do we want to live in trashcanistan, as Stephen Kotkin once called the post-Soviet space?

Or do we want to live in what Rumsfeld, I think quite rightly, once called New Europe?