The following essay is an entertaining take by a Hungarian writer on last month’s presidential election.

Many thanks to CrossWare for translating this piece from the Hungarian daily Magyar Idők:

Hillary Clinton Screwed Over Trump for Good by Orbán János Dénes

December 3, 2016 I realized what led to the death of liberalism. We have an old saying: a lot of talk kills the thing. It’s amazing that a liberal group can produce a tsunami of talk regarding any topic. In the liberal world, in order for a decision to be taken — even an obvious decision, in which common sense would suffice — first-impact studies and dozens of draft must be made ready, then masses of conferences, meetings and post-conference discussions must take place. Each time they wave a Gordian knot, which of course they cannot then untangle, ergo the problem remains unresolved. Somehow they are unable to engage in easy and clear thinking, as if it were tacky to do so. The simple folks — who of course are primitive, redneck single-cell morons — shake their heads, being unable to understand what’s so complicated and why we should further complicate it, and most importantly, why should we continue yakking about it until nobody knows what is going on. Then a leading personality shows up and simply cuts the Gordian knot, and thereby gains the support of the simple folks; they call him a “populist”. This is a swear word in the liberal dictionary. (Pretty lame though, the previous ones were more punchy.) According to liberal thinking, “lots of talk kills things”, “too much talk = poverty” and “silence is golden” are primitive, clichéd phrases, not timeless folk wisdom. They talk and talk and talk, until any decent person’s head starts to hurt and his nerves are inflamed. Then he doesn’t want to take any more of this twaddle, and they say to hell with the whole company, together with its ideas. Anything repeated ad nauseam will cause an extreme backlash. Excessive political correctness led to a surfeit, the holocaust rhetoric caused an overdose of anti-Semitism, and homophobia arose from the overdrive propaganda about sexual minorities. For almost a month we have known that the next President of the United States will be Donald Trump. This is the biggest event of the year and a huge surprise. They say every miracle lasts only three days. Sure, for a larger miracle, let’s give it a week. But I beg of you, notice it’s more than three weeks later and the squealing and brawling just do not want to end, as American liberal intellectual snowflakes cannot accept the result of a democratic election.