VIKTOR Orbán has conceded defeat in the Hungarian general election, and leftists across the Western world are wildly celebrating. EU elites see it as the successful removal of a major thorn in their side. US Democrats are licking their lips at the fall of a strong Trump ally and anticipating a mid-terms blue wave to follow. Globalist puppet leaders like Macron and Starmer are delighted too. Orbán’s Hungary was a rare example of long-standing right-wing success in Europe. Now the question has to be asked: have the forces of globalism killed Hungarian exceptionalism?
Those hoping that the credentials of the new Hungarian leader, Péter Magyar, are reassuring ones for populists elsewhere should note that his first act as Hungary’s new premier was to vow to change the Hungarian constitution so that Viktor Orban can never be PM again. Followed by the impeccably Globalist one of urging Britain to rejoin the EU and supporting Keir Starmer’s close EU alignment policy, also reported in the Daily Mail.
Hungary was the bastion of nation state populism in Europe. For 16 years Orbán stood firm against EU demands to open its borders and fundamentally change its demography. For 16 years one could look to Hungary as an example of populism working to protect a European population from radical change, leftist agendas, mass immigration and increased crime and terrorism.
Hungary, with a population of only 9.6million, equivalent to a major city, never had the power to effect change elsewhere. But it stood as an example of a real and viable alternative to globalism, elite social leftism, and national decay and betrayal by smug authorities and institutions. Orbán’s Hungary had a significance far beyond the GDP of its nation or of its military and economic might. It was influential as a symbol of defiance against establishment leftist forces, governments and voters who hated it because of the encouragement it gave to populists elsewhere.
Because Orbán didn’t want Hungary to be dragged into a war against Russia, and didn’t want escalation of the Ukraine War into a wider and deeper conflict or even a Third World War, he often stood as an embarrassingly prominent dissenting vote against belligerent escalation and the Russophobia that European elites so assiduously promote. Despite allowing 1.4million Ukrainians to flee to Hungary (a notable exception to his generally strong border policy, which bears many comparisons with Trump’s stance), European elites and the EU ran a version of the Russian Collusion Hoax to remove him.
As Hungary moved towards ending Orbán’s rule, and as polls looked positive for the opposition, leftist globalist forces did everything they could to guarantee his defeat. Underneath the flood of anti-Trump and anti-Israel messaging on news platforms and social media, a growing stream of articles, clips and memes shared by progressives and EU fanatics hammered home the repeated propaganda message that Orbán was a Russian asset, a Putin puppet and an enemy of democracy – all the same messages as the Russian Collusion Hoax in the US.
Rent-a-mob activist crowds were deployed exactly in the manner of the well-funded No Kings movement has been used in the US, as a running opposition to effective populist government. The chants of these crowds against Orbán (Russians Go Home) and the mass-produced banners and accompanying media hit pieces suggest a very large scale globalist psy-op at work.
Orbán had faced this kind of electoral interference before and defeated it, partly because of the protection measures he put in place such as the close monitoring and near-banning of Soros-funded organisations.
Partly, though, the defeat of Orbán’s party was aided by the entropy of governance itself, by the slow accumulation of years of attacks and errors which can bring down, with the aid of time alone, once powerful and vibrant forces. Sixteen years is a long time for a European leader, and the propaganda against any leader built over so long a period can unite with the simplicity of a message of change to turn any populace the other way. Charges of Orbán being dictatorial or anti-democratic were as ludicrous and baseless as similar accusations against Trump, but anyone can be hurt by such messaging in the long run. Similarly, allegations of corruption, while largely false, will have some proofs to offer and some real scandals to reference after 16 years in power.
So this time round Orbán faced both the attrition and fatigue born of long rule, and an even more escalated propaganda campaign to remove him. And popular as the protection of Hungarian identity and exceptionalism was, Orbán did have some negative markers on his record (like a globalist adjacent covid policy).
His strongest and defining feature – his unashamed populism and patriotism on protecting Hungarian identity and borders – he let slip as an emergency act of kindness towards Ukrainian refugees, and this may have supplied his globalist enemies with an activist core motivated to push the Putin puppet line within Hungary.
At this point we should say something about the man who defeated him, Péter Magyar, leader of the so-called centre-Right Tisza party, because I think that also explains why this time the leftists and progressives who hate Orbán got their way despite the conservatism of the Hungarian electorate. By selecting a younger former member of Orbán’s own party as the frontman of their campaign, globalist money, the EU and media could swing behind a candidate who would partly disguise their intentions.
The man who will now lead Hungary can simultaneously embody hope for change, while reassuring a conservative populace that it won’t be radical leftist change. He has credentials that suggested to voters that their identity would not be altered and that their patriotism would continue to be respected, which no previous anti-Orbán candidate could show.
The hopeful take would be that the new Hungarian leader governs in accordance with the statements he made about borders and identity on the campaign trail. But I’m personally sceptical that this will be the case, a view shared by Gavin Duncan, another TCW writer and long-time resident in Hungary.
You don’t get this level of establishment delight and leftist gloating and celebration just for Orbán’s fall if he is simply replaced with a younger and more attractive version of himself with a slightly more aggressive attitude towards Russia. You also don’t get the globalist money and media campaign support that Magyar got, the ecstatic EU response and the swift congratulations from Hillary Clinton if you intend to keep protecting your populace from mass immigration, globalist wealth transfer schemes, crooked rape of your national assets and all the other things that come with globalist governance.
Like Duncan, I believe this is a disaster for Hungary. Globalist and leftist ecstasy about the result reinforces that gut reaction. Magyar had a huge amount of their help and they will expect, or are already assured of, a return on that financial and media support.
Globalist and progressive delight is generally a good barometer of coming disaster, and more reliable as an indicator than any credentials or campaign statements are. What’s certain is that all the worst people wanted Orbán gone, and all of them are now celebrating. Not just because of Orbán’s removal and not just in reference to the fate of Hungary, but in terms of their general project of betrayal across the whole Western world. They are all hoping this marks a turning point where a populist tide recedes and a leftist-progressive tide washes in, so they can get on with the important open border task of extinguishing the native white populations of the West, impoverishing and enslaving those allowed to continue to exist and crafting the bizarre and hideous billionaire-radical-Islamic society of ruthless social control and religious and ethnic Islamic conquest that they favour.
It will be both a blessing and a miracle if Hungary remains a bastion of resistance to that agenda.
A longer version of this article appeared on Jupplandia on April 13, 2026, and is republished by kind permission.
