Donald Trump famously promised Americans they would get tired of winning. For sixteen years, the nation of Hungary was run by a man named Urban Winner. On April 12, Hungarians voted that man, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, out of office. But while Hungarian voters may have tired of being winners, they do not seem to have tired of being Magyars. In Hungary’s 199-seat parliament, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party defeated Orbán’s Fidesz party by a margin of eighty-nine seats. Why did Hungarians decide to vote for this man for sixteen years? And why did they stop? How did the qualities that made Orbán popular early in his tenure become liabilities after years in power?…

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