You’re right, a better comparison might be Hungary.

• Orbán achieved near-unlimited power solely because of the ineptitude of the corporate-beholden “left”
• Protest movements started immediately with no clear, realistic and actionable goals and are still going strong 15 years later, yet nobody in power cares
• Orbán started by attacking and dismantling key government institutions like the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, replacing them (and a few others) with a joint Ministry of Human Resources
• The “left” parties and their leaders were mostly squabbling between themselves, either never giving up the “mantle of the leadership of the left” or trying to protect their own small grifts that were going
• In the meantime, voting districts were redrawn and the voting system was changed to benefit the ruling party
• Disenfranchised citizens effectively became a pool of voter/workers beholden to the local party-aligned municipalities, who can be threatened with taking away their sub-minimum wage
• The country was shifted into a manufacturing-focused economy which again produced a large pool of people who can be threatened with their jobs into voting the right way
• Constant threats of war and migration are exploited to call for wartime emergency powers for the government to sidestep the checks and balances that haven’t been dismantled yet

Strap in, for us it took 16 years to get out of it, if we get out of it next year. The way out seems to be a combination of:

• a major economic crisis
• the emergence of a new, “non-partisan, no left no right” political party, grounded solely on anti-corruption
• the fact that finally, after a quarter century, the fake “leftist” parties are polling below 5% collectively and thus will get ousted from Parliament