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Today, Explained

So I elected an autocrat

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Noel King traveled to Hungary to talk to people who voted for Viktor Orbán, people being persecuted by his government, and an American just along for the ride. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today explained, Ramas firm, yesterday in the well, you told us how hungry became a democracy

0:07.0

and then kind of democratically at least fell apart.

0:10.9

You are still in Budapest.

0:12.5

What are you going to tell us today?

0:13.5

I'm telling you the weirdest thing, which is that Budapest feels a lot like the United

0:17.3

States.

0:18.3

Huh.

0:19.3

Yeah, there's no secret police following me.

0:21.6

My phone is not being tapped.

0:23.4

This does not feel like authoritarianism to me.

0:26.8

So the question is, if as an outsider, I'm not noticing anything anti-democratic.

0:31.5

But I know that the country is moving away from democracy.

0:35.4

How much do Hungarians notice what's going on?

0:38.0

And how much do they blame or credit their prime minister, Victor Orbán, who's the guy

0:42.8

who's really behind these anti-democratic movements?

0:45.5

And you're going to ask some Hungarians?

0:47.2

So many Hungarians.

0:48.2

I'm excited.

0:49.2

Nice.

0:50.2

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

1:06.8

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time, hopefully it's snowing, and you've

1:11.0

got to wrap up warm.

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