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Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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No, what they really mean is to coalesce around popular issues and stop fucking around.
To open to both sides of the culture war divide and reject the parts of it which are divisive and embrace the parts of it which are unifying. To actually court both left and right wing voters and not left and right wing donors. To rebuild your society.
To stop courting one group at the expense of another and try and find issues with broad appeal. Take for example "draining the swamp". What if someone actually did that? But instead of campaigning solely on stupid slogans, campaign on a wealth tax and name names where crimes will be investigated and wealth will be confiscated. Or infrastructure. Or anything that everyone can agree on. People like Mamdani are good, but what if you had a Mamdani who can mend bridges even with nationalists? What the current things happening in Hungary is showing us is that everyone slowly got so far from where the people are at, Trump and Harris were both extremists and normal people just want a return to normalcy, where crime meets punishment and an honest life's rewards are greater than a dishonest life's. That there is no "left" and "right", just people with issues.
There was a point where Hungarians also started shooting back in history in similar times. That is a way as well. We went from a place where it was only good for the oligarchy to a point where it was good for nobody. Your equivalent would be that Trump would be hanging from a noose next year, but then AOC would be shot the next. And also their followers. Roving gangs in your town, first rounding up everyone not on the right, then everyone not on the left. Then rinse and repeat. Death, rape and accusations.
And finally you end up with a hyperinflation record and a country that will never be what it once was.
if we actually went and "coalesced" around those popular issues, we would realize we should be fucking fighting. Violently.