Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On a stage in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday afternoon, Vice President J.D. Vance had a remarkable request for the Hungarian people: reelect a dictator. Vance knows that country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has fostered rampant corruption, curtailed the independence of the country’s judiciary, attacked its universities’ academic freedom, spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, and promoted racial homogeneity. But Vance had one major justification for flying to Europe to personally campaign for Orbán’s reelection, as Orbán flags in the polls: Orbán...