India, April 19 -- Viktor Orban, who had been the Prime Minister of Hungary for 16 years, was washed away from office on a tidal wave of votes for his challenger Peter Magyar. Media outlet by outlet was in effect or openly taken over by those Orban deemed to be loyal to him. Journalists in such outlets competed with each other to shower praise on Orban and his money-making, merrymaking men in positions of power. The Hungarians are a proud people with a tradition they have reason to be proud of, and Orban cast himself as the flagbearer of Magyar (Hungarian) pride. According to his acolytes, it was Orban who had ensured that Hungary was freed from control by the admittedly cavernous European Union bureaucracy. They said a vote for Orban is ...