Carlos Eduardo Espina just might be one of the most in-demand influencers in Democratic politics -- so much so that those widely seen as possible 2028 presidential candidates have invited him to collaborate or to their events in the hopes of being exposed to his nearly 20 million followers.
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Hannah Demissie,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
The first is that the élite obsession with shaping national politics, and with getting candidates elected, is a distraction.
In 2022, more than 20 Hungarian universities were disqualified from the European Union’s Erasmus exchange program as a consequence of an Orbán scheme to place control of universities in the hands of public foundations headed by political appointees.
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Justin Spike,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
But there are a series of official bodies stuffed with Orbán loyalists who have taken power away from Hungary's parliament to make policy, Eyal pointed out, as well as a powerful constitutional court full of his appointees.
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