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Back to EpisodesOrban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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Viktor Orban, __________ of Hungary for sixteen years, lost his re-election bid earlier this week.
The simplest phrase to put in the blank is "prime minister". Some people have proposed more loaded terms like "strongman", "autocrat", and "dictator". But he did lose his re-election bid earlier this week, prompting comments that these more loaded terms, especially the d-word, might have been hyperbolic.