Whatever happens in the Hungarian elections this weekend, it's important to understand that Hungarian democracy has served to concentrate autocratic power in Viktor Orbán's hands for decades. Even if Orbán concedes power without a fight, the system itself is the problem.

Reigning governments always establish procedures that tend to reinforce their control. Coupled with the extreme concentration of wealth, this inevitably trends towards autocracy. We need a better analysis of the ways that representative democracy exists on the same spectrum with authoritarianism and can function to legitimize it.

Real change will only come from grassroots action, on a horizontal and decentralized basis.

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