Trump went all in on Orbán and came up short. Opposition leader  Peter Magyar  was swept into office on a landslide big enough to give him a blank check to undo eveything Orban built on a 78% turnout. You can't rig that, now matter how hard you've tried after 16 years of democratic backsliding.  

Oftentimes, in American politics, one party doesn't get pulled further towards its wings, such as the left if you’re a Democrat unless the other party implodes. It's happened a couple of times, like in 1932, and the Democrats adopted left-wing policies under FDR.

Recently, several European states have gone to the polls, and each has an interesting nugget of political science to digest.  Across France, Denmark, and Italy, right-wing and far-right forces ran hard and largely fell short. Hungary, where the definitive test comes on April 12, may be the most consequential data point of all.