There have been three stunning elections in the world this year, all won by pro-Democratic candidates: In April, then-Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered a lopsided defeat , ending his radically regressive 16-year reign, despite the White House’s intervention on his behalf . Incredibly enough, yesterday, the U.S. White House encouraged Orban to consider running for UN secretary-general, indicating that he will also be supported by Russian and China. New Prime Minister Péter Magyar, faced with significant challenges, seems to be moving ahead to uproot years and illiberalism and corruption to rebuild a Hungarian democracy. Then yesterday, the 14-year rein of Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic crashed, opposed by a progressive student movement . Also yesterday, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a surprising fourth term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro , son of Jair Bolsonaro, who four years ago attempted a Trump-type coup that failed and sent him to prison. In Is...

Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, yesterday met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.  Trump praised Orban as a great dictator, or something like that.    Orban said Trump indicated he won't give a penny to Ukraine .   Orban is not scheduled to meet with anyone in the Biden administration.  They are both poised to join the president's for life club, now led by Vladimir Putin, Jinping Xi and Kim Jong Un.  Actually, Viktor already is at their level. On 5August2019, a year before the previous U.S. presidential election, it was scarily reported on  how Trump might be scrutinizing Orban's playbook . Trump borrowed his immigration policy from Orban, who fanned anti-migrant sentiment to gain political power in 2010 to dismantle Hungarian democracy. Immigration is just a Trump's first step to establish an autocracy. Orban built a fence on the border with Serbia in 2015.  Donald has his wall. Orban used bogus corruption charges to sideline political oppon...