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[–] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

That's why it's called planned opposition. If you're afraid of losing control to a genuine opposition movement, you set up a fake opposition movement that dramatically opposes you on a few big ticket items and generally agrees with you on the rest - or that dramatically opposes you on everything, but has no intention of keeping its promises.

Look, I'd like to be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But I expect Magyar is going to make some dramatic economic moves that don't actually change the economy, run some corruption show trials, crack down on political participation outside the two major parties, back down on his pro-EU stances, and quietly take his orders from Orban and Putin behind the scenes.

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