On first glance, this would seem to be the kind of column (h/t: Memeorandum) I could agree with: we are in a Depression, the unemployment problem isn’t acceptable, etc. But what Kruggo intends by this can be summed up in this clause:

…ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

Why, whoever could you be talking about, Kruggo?

Most of the column is directed at Hungary’s governing center-right Fidesz party, which is undoing democracy by the following means:

A proposed election law creates gerrymandered districts designed to make it almost impossible for other parties to form a government; judicial independence has been compromised, and the courts packed with party loyalists; state-run media have been converted into party organs, and there’s a crackdown on independent media; and a proposed constitutional addendum would effectively criminalize the leading leftist party.

In other words, everything Franklin Roosevelt did (excepting the last, of course), everything that Krugman would judiciously ignore if Barack Obama did. And what was Roosevelt’s justification for these measures? Why the Depression, of course.

This column says more than it says.