Hungary is now a Dictatorship

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Everyone's favorite half of Austria-Hungary has passed a sweeping new law allowing President Viktor Orbán to rule the nation by decree, as a response to the new coronavirus crisis.  Bill highlights include:

• Indefinite duration of rule by decree
  
• Returning to normal rules requires 2/3 vote, plus assent of the President
  
• Elections may not take place until normal rules reestablished
  
• Also includes jail terms of up to 5 years for journalists "spreading misinformation"
  
• Political demonstrations also criminalized
  
• President may suspend enforcement of any law
  

So if you've been paying attention to Hungary lately, this shouldn't be all that surprising.  This is, after all, the country that criminalized the act of a lawyer representing an immigrant in court.  Most of the people who couldn't tolerate the authoritarian rule have already left to other countries in the EU.

It does bring to mind the ancient custom of dictatorship in ancient Rome, but this was always for a fixed term, or at least with the continued consent of the Senate.  And power was given for a specific cause; other authority remained with the Senate, comitia, and magistrates.  This seems to go far beyond that, to the modern concept of an authoritarian dictatorship.

So now a member state of the EU and NATO is a fully realized dictatorship.  Discuss.