{"id":589552,"date":"2026-04-17T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589552\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:15:09","slug":"hungary-voted-its-strongman-out-but-what-about-the-united-states-letter-letters-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589552\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary voted its strongman out, but what about the United States? [letter] | Letters To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anybody notice that Hungarian strongman Viktor Orb\u00e1n \u2014 a favorite of President Donald Trump \u2014 was voted out of office?<\/p>\n<p>What I found interesting is that there were no cries of a stolen election and no instigated attack on the capital by an egotistical narcissist. The Hungarian people should be commended. Only a few decades removed from the Soviet Bloc and with no long tradition of peaceful transfer of power, the people and democracy won.<\/p>\n<p>We, on the other hand, put a convicted felon back in the White House. We now have protesters being killed, journalists being jailed, arrests being made without due process and free speech being curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, President Trump doesn\u2019t want to be a king or a dictator but he does want to be president for life. With the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters getting pardons and commutations, I fear that Trump is laying the groundwork for another coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Fasten your seat belt. It\u2019s going to be a bumpy ride.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Segro<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did anybody notice that Hungarian strongman Viktor Orb\u00e1n \u2014 a favorite of President Donald Trump \u2014 was voted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,35599,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-589552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-letters_to_editor","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}