Nigeria, April 8 -- The problem with demagogues is that they invariably fall into infantile practices. The politics of the playground is the politics of hate, violence and betrayal. It's the politics of finding the useful enemy and bullying the theme till it's raw. In Hungary's parliamentary elections set for April 12, the only theme that seems to matter to the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) alliance and Viktor Orban, the country's demagogic leader of 16 years, is Ukraine.

Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky have been pictured as symbolic occupiers, intruders and meddlers, intent on bringing in Hungary and the rest of the European Union into Kyiv's resistance against Russia. For his part, Orban has bee...