I'm not impressed by the fainting couch "oh, that authoritarian Vktor Orban" polemics for the same reason I find US political discourse obtuse and genuinely hateful. There is a consistent refusal (and inability) to engage with the topic intellectually and a tendency to dwell in emotionalism. It's intellectually shallow and lazy. Orban must be understood in the broader cultural and political context. Fixating on Orban is a way to ignore the problem, a convenient way to scapegoat someone for all the things you don't like, good or bad. Projection abounds. If Orban never was, someone else would take his place.

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.