Trump may be toxic and Orbán is gone, but Europe’s far right is not in decline (opens in new tab)

Let’s not draw the wrong conclusions from Hungary’s election or the US president’s troublesViktor Orbán’s crushing defeat in last month’s Hungarian election has led to an outbreak of democratic optimism. Across the globe, democrats are drawing lessons from the results and speculating about the decline of the far right. There is simultaneously a consensus that Donald Trump has gone from inspiration to “liability” for the global far right.While the fall of Orbán has great symbolic significance ...