A new leading man has emerged on the Hungarian stage. The soundtrack runs from a Roma anthem to a patriotic Eurodance hit. From half-built imperial palaces lauded by American postliberals to futuristic museums sprouting in City Park, what will Péter Magyar do with the cultural landscape Orbán built?

If Péter Magyar’s Tisza party unseats Viktor Orbán after sixteen years of popularly legitimized autocratic rule, it will end a regime that has steadily narrowed democratic life in Hungary. The route out of Orbánism, however, comes at the cost of diminishing all non-right-wing political options.