End the Covid-Emergency Farce

The government’s pandemic powers just got extended another 90 days.

Back in 2020, when almost every head of state in the world was declaring Covid-19 a state of emergency and national executives were obtaining their extraordinary powers, there was an international freak-out about Viktor Orbán, the husky Hungarian prime minister. One writer at the Atlantic said that the prime minister had undoubtedly crossed the line between emergency powers and outright authoritarianism. Another predicted that there would never be elections again in Hungary and that the Hungarian parliament had been dissolved forever. One of...