Sparks: Hungary: Orban election loss reverberates across Central Europe

The rigid fortress, having strained against the river for so long, is most surprised to find itself dissolved by it.

Power, once accustomed to operating without check, mistakes its own endurance for a natural law until the accounting comes due.

Losing an election lies outside your control, but your clamor about it reveals what you never truly governed - your own character.

Those who plead for patience and gradualism find their arguments expire quite suddenly when the people themselves decide.

Why do you continue serving him when you have already shown you possess the power to withdraw your consent?

And so the electorate, with admirable politeness, has declined the offer of its own perpetual subjugation.

This verdict reveals more about the moral formation of the electorate than any campaign speech ever could.

It is a modest proposal indeed that a leader who treated the nation as his private estate should be politely asked to leave.

The repressed - the desire for liberty - returns, not as a dream, but as a starkly numerical and unforgiving reality.

Another iron house proves to have a door, if only the sleepers inside would dare to push it open.

A slight but persistent variation in the political climate proves fatal to a species of rule too rigid to adapt.