Very excited, very excited.

I was waiting 16 years for this day.

I don't know. I hope now change and who change, but not only in Hungary around the world. It's not normal now.

He had all the opportunities to make Hungary great again. This is a very common phrase now,

but he missed this chance, definitely.

Hi again everybody, it's now 5 o'clock in New York. At times over the past few years, in those darkest moments, it's felt all bit inevitable, that methodic, creeping descent into an authoritarian future, not just here in the United States, but around the world. Today, though, just as Donald Trump's vice grip over our American system starts to slip away, people halfway

around the world are likewise rejecting those autocratic impulses and tendencies and embracing,

or rather re-embracing, a bold new vision. This weekend, against all odds, voters in Hungary

ended the 16-year reign of far-right Prime Minister Victor Orban. Among the reasons

it was such a stunning result and tells us, tells us it this sounds at all familiar to you,

Orban manipulated the country's election system and initiated a takeover of its media outlets.

And yet, and yet, this was the scene last night, Among the shouts from the crowd, quote,

Russians go home. Indeed, Vladimir Putin was an advocate for Orban. So too was Donald Trump.

We even went so far as to dispatch his vice president, J.D. Vance, to campaign in Hungary last week for Orban.

Our friend in Applebaum put it like this.

Quote, Orban's loss brings to an end the assumption of inevitability that has pervaded

the MAGA movement as well as the belief, also present in Russian President of Vladimir

Putin's rhetoric, that illiberal parties are somehow destined not just to win, but to hold power forever because

they have the support of quote unquote real people. As it turns out, history doesn't work like

that. Real people grow tired of their rulers. Old ideas become stale. Younger people question

orthodoxy. Illiberalism leads to corruption. And if Orban can lose, then his Russian and American

admirers can lose too. To be clear, Orban's replacement is no liberal. He's a center-right politician,

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