Why Orbán lost
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BUDAPEST—For 16 years, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary embodied a troubling idea: that “illiberal democracy” could be made stable and entrench itself in power. Combining electoral dominance with the systematic weakening of institutional checks and balances, Orbán appeared to solve a central dilemma of modern authoritarianism: how to win repeatedly at the ballot box while hollowing out liberal democracy. And because his model inspired admirers throughout the West (and beyond), helping to sustain a broader
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