The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.
The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.
Congress is on recess.
This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.
May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
The absolute state of this... "DPhil Poetry" "Hungary has fallen"
Viktor Orban losing means Trump and GOP will double down on trying to steal the 2026 election. They know a blue tsunami is coming. We must be even more vigilant in protecting the election!
I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.
This heartbreaking handwritten note left on a ballot in today's Hungarian election, the remnants of sixteen consecutive years of Viktor Orban's regime.
"I cast this vote in memory of my parents, who died with fear and hatred in their hearts."
💔🕯️🕊️
📷 From László Ágoston
Walking back to Pest towards the Liberty Bridge, with unbridled joy and euphoria in the air, as far as the eye can see.
The Hungarian nation is free! 🔥
🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️
#Hungary
The scene at Péter Magyar’s victory rally at Batthyány tér, with the stunning Hungarian Parliament across the Danube.
Hungary, and Hungarians, are free! 🔥
🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️
This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job
Trump tomorrow:
Viktor Orban? Never heard of him.
Heading across the Liberty Bridge with my fellow Hungarians, crossing the Danube straight back to where this nation belongs, smack dab in the heart of Europe 🇪🇺!
The Hungarian nation is free! 🔥
🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️
#Hungary
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
"Donald Trump and JD Vance have become a liability, not a boost, to right wing populists."
Ben Rhodes
sort of hard to convey the sheer joy, scale and absurdity of it but Budapest's streets are currently so full, past midnight on a Sunday, that it feels like I'm personally walking back to my room, accompanied by my eight to twelve thousand best friends
love, LOVE the very well dressed middle aged couple standing in the street, graciously waving to passing youths, drinking white wine straight from the bottle
crowd at the Tisza rally singing "Europa! Europa!"
On the Budapest Metro, after the election results tonight, as well as during the Peter Magyar victory speech, and at the eve of election rally
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Oh MAN does this ever have to happen in the US.
Just like this.
A screenshot of a television showing election results from the Hungary election
Watching a French station and this was just posted. “This election was a choice between east versus west.”
#HungaryElection 🇭🇺
Orban’s defeat shows that when we stand together against the politics of hate and division, hope wins and the far right friends of Farage can be defeated.
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social 2026-04-12 23:31 Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
And yet, on Magyar's suggested conservatism, note this ↓.
The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
Your reminder that both the U.S. and Israel are being run by criminals trying to stay out of prison.
Péter Magyar victory speech:
"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."
He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.
I can’t believe it 😭
Wow, J.D. really vanced the hell out of the Hungarian presidential election
Activists hold sign TYRANT
Today, the people of #Hungary toppled their tyrant.
America, our return to democracy requires our full attention.
We can see it can be done!
We should be taking notes.
Hungary is Central European and knows it is Central European. There’s a Roman amphitheatre in Budapest, and Marcus Aurelius wrote part of his Meditations in what’s now Budapest.
The promise that entails of a normal, pleasantly-mundane life as an EU citizen is quietly but profoundly revolutionary.
