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In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we find that may of Orban's strategies are being studied by politicians elsewhere. (Image credit: ATTILA KISBENEDEK)https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2025/04/15/gettyimages-2199570605_slide-19ddf5f34913d60989c578b914334ecda4e1b482.jpg