Why did JD Vance personally campaign for the former Hungarian prime minister, Victor Orban? Why did his comprehensive defeat by a former member of his own party, Peter Magyar, garner such attention from the American press?

Because, according to Greg Sargent, Orban has for the last sixteen years served as the vanguard of the authoritarian internationale, leading and organizing would-be autocrats across the West. How did he lose, and what does that mean for the American struggle against authoritarianism?

Greg Sargent, staff writer at the New Republic and host of their Daily Blast podcast, and author of https://newrepublic.com/article/209001/trump-orban-hungary-defeat-humiliation-beginning