"[Orbán moved] so swiftly to remove all formal checks on his power that few... understood how much power he was accruing...
"... By the time he was up for reelection... the opposition barely had a chance. In hindsight, the first year may have been the entire ballgame..."
The Trump-Musk power grab has happened before — in Hungary | Vox
https://www.vox.com/politics/398068/trump-musk-power-grab-hungary-orban