I definitely think the GOP wants a Hungary-like situation, but there are obstacles unique to the U.S current situation and system that probably will make it difficult to happen.
The U.S is very plutocratic and kritarchic. The capitalist class and judiciary are where the mass of political power in the U.S resides. They are very jealous of their power. They're happy to back Trump when he has popular support and abandon him when he doesn't (which explains why American billionaires flip-flop back and forth on him.) No other Republican has been able to emulate Trump's popularity. Presidential terms are very short and Trump is a lot older than Orbán. He is very unlikely to care enough to set-up some sort of light autocracy for whomever succeeds him as GOP leader. His decisions and policies will be shaped around whatever makes him look good amongst his base.
My prediction is we'll be deep in a recession (on par with the Great Recession) if not next year towards the latter end of Trump's term, likely with his tariffs and deportations as a catalyst. Inflation will ramp up again too, so we'll have a stagflation 2.0 crisis. He ends up a lame duck for the second half of this term. Parties flip in the next election. Nothing much changes in terms of the existing undemocratic power structure of the U.S.
But increasingly, over the next decade or two we'll have crises like this, and people are probably going to further radicalize (on both the left and right.) Whomever is the next demagogue probably will have learned a lot from Trump and if we don't have real democratic institutions throughout the overwhelming majority of this country it could easily end up in a Hungary-like situation given the right crisis.
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