"The political earthquake that #Hungary experienced on Monday, when the party opposing #Orbán won two-thirds of the seats in Parliament, was unimaginable a year and a half ago, but there had been smaller, almost imperceptible rumblings of the kind that usually portend profound political change. Across rural Hungary—the source of Orbán’s base—small civic groups were forming in places where civil society had all but disappeared."

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theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

The Clubs in Hungary That Helped Lead to Orbán's Defeat

Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.

^{Gal Beckerman (The Atlantic)}