The whole thing bears more explanation.

Orbán look set to lose the election in 2026, and it trying to use this to divide the opposition party that is currently very successful in trying to challenge him. If everyone talks about Pride instead of the collapse of healthcare and education (people are waiting months to get on waitlists that are year-long for everything, thousands of GPs are missing), then he thinks maybe he can scare enough people with the threat of war like last time to stay in power.

It may backfire though, because it looks like it brought out some serious organic support for Pride, and it may turn into a big protest against the government without impacting the opposition since they won’t be leading it.

That said, things are going downhill very fast, there are new lows the government hits every week. They falsified EU parliament documents to aid their propaganda a few weeks ago, last week Orbán has been calling the opposition “bugs that managed to survive the winter” that “survived too much” and “have to be cleaned come spring”.

The last time someone in power used that language, it was the “nemzetvezető” (our word for führer) Ferenc Szálasi, describing Jewish people. Orbán actually had to backtrack, because even his base has the decency to question that.

Also, the Hungarian christian churches, both the Catholics and the Protestants are in bed with Orbán, but it’s not like the US, nobody wants a theocracy, it’s just a vote grab and general corruption. In fact, that alignment is costing them votes now, since there seems to be a pedophilic abhorrence getting outed every month since last year when they had to get rid of the President and the Minister of Justice for one.