Max Boot: Liberal democracy isn’t dead after all

Chairman of Fidesz Party Viktor Orban takes his oath as Prime Minister of Hungary after he was re-elected for his third consecutive term in the new Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 10, 2018. Center in the background: Speaker of the Parliament Laszlo Kover. (Tamas Kovacs/MTI via AP) “The era of liberal democracy is over.” So said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban last week as he began his fourth overall term in office. It’s a persuasive message coming from a self-proclaimed champion of “illiberal democracy” who has consolidated near-dictatorial power by fomenting anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic prejudice, rewriting electoral laws and installing his cronies to run the media, law enforcement, the judiciary, cultural institutions, churches, schools and universities.

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