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Robert Tait

Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump

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Katalin Cseh delivers a speech during a session of the European parliament in Brussels, Belgium, in January 2021. Photograph: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Democrats must organize urgently for the 2026 midterm elections and avoid a “it can’t happen here” mentality to stop Donald Trump from staging a full-scale autocratic takeover, a Hungarian opposition parliamentarian has said.

Katalin Cseh, a critic of Hungary’s strongman prime minister, Viktor Orbán, told a forum on authoritarianism that the central European country’s experience held vital lessons for Trump’s opponents in their attempts to resist his assaults on US institutions and democratic norms since his return to the White House.

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