I may have more to say later, but we really do need to celebrate the humiliation of Viktor Orbán in Hungary. Orbán had done all the undemocratic things Trump is starting to do here. He gerrymandered election districts. He took over the media. He took over the universities. And he took over the courts. He gave government money to his cronies and blacklisted his political enemies.

Despite all these efforts to tilt the playing field, which he has been doing for 16 years, the people of Hungary still threw him out on his ass. And that’s even after JD Vance did his big Orbán pitch in person, telling the people of Hungary that racism was the future of Western Civilization. And Trump told them the same thing by Zoom. Even Donald Jr. got into the act. 

And contrary to the polls, it wasn’t close. Orbán lost by such a large margin that even Donald Trump didn’t try to claim it was fraud.

Lots going on in the world, and I may chime in again later, but for now, let’s enjoy a few rounds of Woody Guthrie’s classic, All You Fascists Bound to Lose.