Viktor Orbán's Hungarian experiment runs out of steam
Federaţia Rusă
What Viktor Orbán did for the last 16 years in power was "an experiment" - but even he didn't know what to call it. "Illiberal democracy" sounded too negative. His American friends liked to call it "national conservatism", which sounds better, but it was never strictly true. Unlike most conservatives, Orbán was a rebel. He constantly radicalised himself. So what could he conserve? He loved to thumb his nose at the mainstream, at the "Brussels bureaucrats". He was a thorn in their side, but
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