Hungarian ‘Regime Change’ Is Both Dangerous and Necessary

I can’t remember ever hearing the winner of a democratic election stand in front of the cameras after their victory to promise “regime change.” A new dawn or era, yes. Hope, transformation, integrity, a drained swamp, for sure, ad nauseam. But not what Hungary’s Peter Magyar pledged after routing Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the polls on Sunday.

Regime change is what the US and Israel hoped to achieve in Iran. It implies the removal not of a legitimate government willing to concede defeat in the normal course of an election cycle, but of an entire system aimed at the accumulation and preservation of power.