as the liberal democracy we've always been, albeit shaky and battered as we recover. After all, we've weathered all storms to this point and people have calmed down and continued to enlarge the rights and wellbeing of our citizens.
Apparently one pattern seen in other embattled democracies, though, is that they continue to hold elections for some period while neither protectors of liberal government of, by and for the people nor authoritarians are able to secure enough power long enough to stabilize one way or another. So we could be in for some years of this. Or not.
Hungary's current illiberal autocracy had to backtrack on the "rule by decree" power legislators gave Orban, for instance, but recently a national election, still held, probably legitimately chose to keep power in the far right's hands; it's not all settled there by a long shot.
Meanwhile, people carry on their lives. Potatoes always still have to be planted while kings and popes come and go, after all.
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