How do autocracies and dictatorships come to an end?

In countries such as Nepal and Bangladesh, a democratic awakening is palpable. Meanwhile, Viktor Orbán recently lost the election in Hungary. Do these different local developments mean that a trend reversal and a democratic awakening could now be on the horizon elsewhere in the world? We hear from a protest researcher, a dictatorships expert, and a Swiss-Hungarian who lived through the 1956 uprising. Young people are bringing down governments in the name of democracy. This isn’t taking place in the hopeful post-Cold War era, but in the hard-edged 2020s, as strongmen like Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin dominate…