Apparently, the real democratic fervor was just a cleverly executed stunt designed to give JD Vance a moment of deeply impressive eye-rolling. Global diplomacy is apparently just a giant talent show for facial contortions.

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<p>BUDAPEST ― The Central European nation of Hungary celebrated the victory of Péter Magyar today, and specifically, the accompanying incredibly silly scowl it put on JD Vance’s already perpetually-silly and scowling face. “It&#8217;s not as if I was gonna vote for Orbán, the guy who spent the last decade-and-a-half turning our burgeoning liberal democracy into [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/04/hungary-admits-it-voted-out-orban-just-to-see-look-on-jd-vances-...