"The eyes of the world are upon Budapest."---Paul Krugman Election tomorrow..

[Mark Kohut]

I'll bet Kurt Anderson, who writes novels, has read* Shadow Ticket*...

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Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán are quantum-entangled fascists 7,000
kilometers apart— a long-distance bipartite mixed-state spin entanglement.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> which is why *Shadow Ticket* went there, I suggest. Shadow ticket to
> America.
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> "It’s not a big place, but it’s symbolic. It is a role model for
> right-wing authoritarians everywhere. It still formally has the
> institutions of democracy, but has for the past 16 years been a one party
> state — ruled by a right-wing authoritarian ethno-nationalist regime that
> enforces its will partly by rigging elections, partly through an extensive
> system of crony capitalism that rewards its friends and punishes its
> enemies.
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> In other words, it’s a MAGA kind of place. It’s what they would like to do
> to the United States, although with less sophistication and more brutality.
> " _ Krugman....
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> Shadow Ticket, the novel....
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