{"id":6061,"date":"2014-06-15T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2014-06-15T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:27:59","slug":"freedom-house-on-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6061","title":{"rendered":"Freedom House on Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom House is <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/nations-transit\/2014\/hungary\">not happy about Hungary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to their latest report, Hungary remains a consolidated democracy, but only barely. The threshold index value is 3.00; Hungary slid from 1.96 in 2005 to 2.96 in 2014. (A lower value means a better democracy score.)<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of Orban&#8217;s increasingly autocratic regime point at <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/nations-transit\/2014\/hungary\">this report<\/a> as proof that Orban&#8217;s government is undemocratic, or worse. They have a point.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; the trend did not begin in 2010, when Mr. Orban was elected. Hungary&#8217;s index was already 2.39 in 2010. The trend is clearly long term, transcending governments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6062\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/report\/nations-transit\/2014\/hungary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6062\" class=\"wp-image-6062 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/freedom-house-hungary.png\" alt=\"Freedom House Democracy Score - Hungary\" width=\"481\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/freedom-house-hungary.png 481w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/freedom-house-hungary-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freedom House Democracy Score &#8211; Hungary<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, it is Hungary as a whole, the country that is turning its back to democracy, listening to populists blaming everything on Brussels; or to radical populists, blaming everything on &#8220;international financiers&#8221;; or to extremist populists who have no use for such euphemisms and just blame everything openly on the Jews. Or the &#8220;liberal-bolsheviks&#8221;. Or America (but pointedly NOT blaming Barack Obama; after all, nothing a black man does can be consequential. No, it&#8217;s Joe Biden that they seem to be fixated on.)<\/p>\n<p>What a bunch of&#8230; Aw, nevermind.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6061' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom House is not happy about Hungary. According to their latest report, Hungary remains a consolidated democracy, but only barely. The threshold index value is 3.00; Hungary slid from 1.96 in 2005 to 2.96 in 2014. (A lower value means a better democracy score.) Opponents of Orban&#8217;s increasingly autocratic regime point at this report as <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6061' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-politics","category-21-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6066,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}