[Elizabeth Shackelford] Hungary’s lessons for democracy

News cycles this year have been a relentless parade of hard knocks, and April has been no exception. But last weekend, the people of Hungary delivered good news. They came out in record numbers, with nearly 80 percent participation, to decisively vote out Viktor Orban, the country’s long-standing illiberal prime minister. The opposition Tisza party secured more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats, winning a powerful supermajority. This would be a remarkable feat in any election, but in Or

By The Korea Herald