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The problem with these articles in Persuasion about alleged anti-democratic measures taken by the populists of Europe is that they are always written by people who hate their values.

I am opposed to efforts to undermine democracy, full stop. Which means I oppose Fidesz rigging elections, if it is true that that is what they are doing. But I also fully support Hungarian voters if they oppose the efforts of globalists to undermine their national sovereignty and traditional culture and society, and further those interests by winning at the ballot box.

This article is actually more fair-minded that most, in allowing that Orban's policies are legitimately very popular in Hungary.

It is interesting that Persuasion, which purports to be so concerned about democracy, has never written an article about how undemocratic it is that population change policies in Europe always seem to be so dramatically at odds with the desires of European electorates, and have been for decades.

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