Commentary I almost feel sorry for Anne Applebaum. Here she has been railing against evil chaps like Viktor Orbán for who knows how many years. Nevertheless, the benighted people of Hungary just handed him a crushing victory. And it was not only Orbán who won. His Fidesz party also picked up a slew of seats. They now control 135 out of 199 seats in the Hungarian Parliament. Sadness is abroad in what Sohrab Ahmari calls “global liberaldom.” St. Matthew would have called it “fletus et stridor dentium”: “wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Why didn’t the voters listen to Anne Applebaum (and Bill Kristol, Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot, and other anti-populist globalists)? Why? According to The Narrative,™ it’s because Hungary isn’t, not really, a democracy. “If Hungary really votes overwhelmingly against democracy and for corruption,” wailed one EU-minded Twitterer, “I cannot see why it should be accepted in the EU. Kick …
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