{"id":91588,"date":"2026-04-12T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91588"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:30:07","slug":"can-democracy-overthrow-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/12\/can-democracy-overthrow-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Can democracy overthrow fascism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a chance we might get some good news today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1k1a1x\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/12\/hungarians-vote-in-hard-fought-election-that-could-oust-viktor-orban-after-16-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">might lose the Hungarian general election<\/a>, proving that democracy can, perhaps, overthrow fascism.<\/p>\n<p>On this particular front, I am living in hope.<\/p>\n<p>It would be stunning if we found out that this is possible, but do not expect Orban to go quietly even if he loses. Putin and Trump want him in power, and will fund whatever he wants to do next. We will learn a great deal about the true state of the world beyond the Middle East over the next few days as a consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a chance we might get some good news today. Viktor Orb\u00e1n might lose the Hungarian general election, proving that democracy can, perhaps, overthrow fascism.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/12\/can-democracy-overthrow-fascism\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fascism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91590,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91588\/revisions\/91590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}