I just wrote a piece for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social about Orbán's defeat by Peter Magyar. The piece argues that this was not a defeat of populism, as much commentary has it, but quite the opposite—a victory that was possible because of populism.
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Viktor Orbán’s defeat was not a victory over populism but a populist victory
Péter Magyar's defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary was not a victory over populism, but an expression of its own form of democratic populism.
