Of the West’s leaders, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has taken matters the furthest. It no longer makes sense to talk of Hungary as a bona fide democracy. Having rewritten the country’s constitution to suit his party, and rushed it through on a low-turnout referendum, Hungary’s opposition faces an impossibly tilted playing field. The chances that Orbán’s opponents could win an election under these conditions are slim to vanishing. Orbán now boasts that Hungary is an ‘illiberal democracy’.
