Thus The Guardian today. “Anti-immigrant stance of Hungary’s prime minister is discomforting other European leaders but there seems little they can do to change his ways,” elaborates the newspaper. The way he sees it, he is defending the Christian world against the invading Muslims. Many of the European Union leaders are shunning him, but they admit that he has broken no law so far. Some of the leaders also criticize him for his unchristian stance. As the article points out, Orbán is a strongman. He has used his power to write a new constitution, throttle the media, stuff the constitutional court with his supporters, purge the foreign ministry and the diplomatic corps, and restructure the parliament and gerrymander electoral districts. He mocks European notions of liberal democracy, and voices his admiration for Vladimir Putin in Russia and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey. For all his detractors in the Union, the article argues, he has many admirers in central Europe and in the Balkans. This is where politicians see Orbán as a man to emulate. Even more, they see him as Europe’s future rather than its past. And this is good to remember in the years to come. The cordon sanitaire of old may well have a very bright future.