Magyar used to be part of Orban's party. Won't it just be a new set of oligarks?

On your tangent: it's easy. All the "true" opposition were united against Fidesz, and only vote-sucking Fidesz-collaborationists were running additionally.

The FPTP system put in place 16 years ago demanded this. Hungary will do better after a long overdue electoral reform.

"What else was I supposed to do short of assasinating the guy?"

I know that this sounds crazy, considering how world leaders usually behave nowadays, but it is possible that he was just kind of tired of being in charge and thinks that Magyar (who does share the vast majority of Orban's values) is a decent enough replacement who won't start any corruption court cases against him.

At least he knows when he's beaten, that's worth some credit.

Some people never accept it.

He went through quite a few names apparently, but these days he identifies as "JD" "Vance".

It'd be hilarious if he had difficulties voting under the bullshit laws these assfucks want to create for Americans to squelch the vote.

No, his birth name is James Donald Bowman.

Don't forget about Slovakia tho

• taking the quality of political discourse from not great to flinging excrement at each other

• intentionally dividing society, making the two sides more hostile toward each other and making one part scapegoat for the other, to the point of overusing the word 'traitor'

• gerrymandering done so extensively that he had to resort to explaining the problems with his very own creation to his voters, because the system magnifies the differences, giving you a 2/3 majority of the seats even by just winning 52%/40% (hence the radical change from government 2/3 to opposition 2/3 over one term).

• environmental damage to several areas due to covering up the failure of safety measures around various, newly built battery factories. Cadmium, cobalt and similarly dangerous substances seeping into the soil and groundwater.

• health care system neglected and severely underfunded (soap, toilet paper and/or seats missing from hospitals, workers underpaid, air con not working during the peak summer heat, staffing issues, etc.)

• education system kept underfunded and dumbed down to get more low skilled workers for the industry

There might be more, but all of the above will take several years (possibly >4 years) to undo, and global economy isn't helping, either - all this after stealing stellar amounts of money and leaving an empty treasury for the next government. I don't have high hopes for anyone trying to steer this back from disaster under just one term.