The political rifts today are not merely over policy, but over basic ethical matters and norms. Scapegoating is just a way to avoid having to deal with your real problems by projecting onto someone often superhuman causal powers that would explain why things aren't the way you'd like them to be. Conspiracy theorists do the same thing.
An analogous situation is in Poland. The unofficial ruler of the country declared that Germany is the biggest enemy of Poland, playing on the feelings of the older generation, and is trying to build a narrative around that (the EU servers only Germany, hence EU = evil). That wasn't a narration among Polish conservatives a few years ago, it was constructed by a single person and spread by his minions and the media he is controlling. The biggest absurdity of the last days was when Germany proposed giving Poland Patriots, the Polish defense minister happily agreed as any normal person would, then the day after after the unofficial ruler got berserk he completely changed his opinion and refused to accept them (how can Germans protect Polish sky if we say Germany = Evil?). What a shitshow!
I eon't think it is, though. There's a lot of worth there still, even if the good parts have become obscure. Good parta include freedoms of all kinds and Chicago/Austrian economics.
Same as ie Putin - for every protester/leaver this year there is literally 100 that are +-content enough to stay, maybe sometimes throw a complaint or two and continue business as usual. And vote for him. Even with some corruption and election rigging I'd say (and happy to be mistaken) they are properly majority-popular, just not 96%-popular. Then one realizes part of population is plain stupid in rather unfixable way, and the choices become being cynic for rest of life or simply leave.
I've never been to Russia. The impression I've formed is that there is a strong nationalist/imperialist camp among the Russian population. I'm inclined to trust the Levada polling organisation, and they say that Putin (and his invasion) have broad support among Russians.
We tend to personalize these things; e.g. it's all Putin's fault. I think that's a mistake; if you don't acknowledge that the nationalist/imperialist sentiment is widespread in the population, then you'll attack the wrong target, e.g. by trying to assasinate Putin. But if the xenophobia and nationalism are just part of the national sentiment, that's not going to work.
I have no idea how one might set about combatting nationalist/imperalist sentiment in a foreign country; traditionally we use spies and trouble-makers, but I don't think that works well.
When it goes beyond sentiment and into a genocidal war of aggression, like it did in Russia, there is one approach that no one in their right mind would advocate for, but it does work. It certainly worked in Germany and Japan.
A huge other part of Hungarians who Orban gave votes to were born and poor people living in Romania and getting just a little bit of money from the country to vote for Orban, but they are not paying taxes (representation without taxation is just as bad as taxation without representation, which was achieved in Magna Carta).
Hungarians living in Hungary had 1 day to vote, while Hungarians living in Romania had weeks and could vote in letter.
He's also had a supermajority since 2010 and has used it to change the voting system in his favor.