Mises Wire
Author:
Joakim Book
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others is everything. This all comes to mind as Viktor Orbán, the longest-serving European head of state and poster child for populism and illiberal democracy, once erudite, well-educated, right-thinking person inside and outside of that central European country, it’s a blow to their view of the world—a cognitive dissonance in a former Communist country that has long regarded airy dreams of “The Soviet Union wasn’t real communism!” as an insult to their collective history. On the