Fear not. This is not 1984. Your institutions have a very long history and have seen much, much worse. You barely need a law to protect your most essential rig

Fear not. This is not 1984. Your institutions have a very long history and have seen much, much worse. You barely need a law to protect your most essential right which is to able to confer ('assemble' but really meaning communicate) with others about whatever you want, especially to talk about your government in almost whatever terms you want ... because we have a fairly open Internet or this would be a lot scarier. You are not locked in at home because of some arbitrary authoritarian measure, there is are very good reasons for this, and though some things will change for good, most of your 'good life' will come back soon enough. Orban is playing a much more dangerous game, and I fear for the citizens of Hungary. I believe that once the EU gets over the hump, they will deal with Orban. The EU is effete and feckless sometimes, but I think Orban just crossed an actual line. The EU holds the purse, and ultimately Orban is small and poor, and therefore mostly powerless and he will eventually cave like a paper tiger. Or lose an election. Orban has no real cards to play. Have faith. It's 'mostly' going to be ok.