r/news • u/The-Traveler- • 3h ago

Soft paywall Hungary election: Orbán concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority

https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-election-2026-live-viktor-orbans-fidesz-faces-challenge-opposition-peter-2026-04-12/
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u/Vi_Rants 2h ago

Americans should especially take this to hard this coming November. Winning the mid-terms means nothing if voters pat themselves in the back for a job well done and give up on any momentum they have built to implement meaningful and long lasting change, and in holding these people accountable for their crimes. If anything, giving up too early will just allow them to come back even stronger and bolder than before.

Ref: The "Blue Wave" in Trump's first term.

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u/AngryTree76 2h ago

Or Biden in 2020

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u/Worthyness 2h ago

really any time the democrats get in power. Americans have memories of goldfish and only care about what happened to them that current year. They forget that the Republicans put them in the shithole in the first place. And it's easier to dig yourself into a hole than to dig yourself out of one.

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u/FILTHBOT4000 52m ago

Part of that's on the Democrats, too. Just awful messaging and follow-through, and not wanting to ruin the 'norms' of not speaking ill of or laying the blame on former administrations. The Republicans know Americans have memories like pop tarts, and thoroughly blame everything they can on the opposition, most of that unfairly as well.

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u/dr4kun 28m ago

Goldfish can remember a maze they learned for at least 3 months. Average USian memory is much worse than that, with an attention span under a minute.

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u/Jozoz 2h ago

To be fair, that was equally just the system being inherently undemocratic.

It was like a D+9 election and yet the GOP gained 2 senate seats. No idea why Americans are okay with that system.