Many MAGA Republicans view Viktor Orban's Hungary as a model for their own policies, and Vice President J.D. Vance has gone to Hungary to help the increasingly unpopular Orban stave off electoral defeat, which might well happen despite Orban's rigging of the election system. But, as my Cato colleague and prominent Swedish libertarian economic policy expert Johan Norberg explains in a new Cato policy analysis, Orban's rule is a cautionary tale, not an example to emulate:
