Make no mistake about it. Hungary’s prime minister is a man with a vision. At the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Viktor Orban described himself as the “leader of a country that is under the siege of progressive liberals day by day” and Hungary as “Europe’s bastion of conservative Christian values.” He sees the West as in decline but hopes to save it by substituting its current political system – “liberal democracy” – with “illiberal democracy.” Unsurprisingly, his model of good governance is Vladimir Putin’s Russia. No less unsurprisingly, Orban’s Hungary is, as Freedom House notes, only “partly free.”...