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The Message for MAGA in Viktor Orbán’s Defeat by Isaac Stanley-Becker

Viktor Orbán’s transformation of Hungary has been, in many ways, the proof of concept for today’s MAGA movement—and this model of governance was “rejected soundly” by voters in Hungary’s election, Isaac Stanley-Becker reports.
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