[13] Now a leading critic of the right-wing Viktor Orbán government,[3][14] she has called its actions as creating an "unconstitutional constitution",[15] and that Hungarian democracy is in jeopardy.

[3] She called Tünde Handó a "judicial Czar" whose role damaged the independence of the Hungarian judiciary.

[18][19] In 2013, she testified before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, repeating her thesis, that Hungary is slanting towards an authoritarian and oligarchic regime.

In her understanding "the electoral system has been designed in a way that makes it impossible for the opposition parties to win unless they all unite".

"[20][21][22] Also a critic[23][2] of the 1st Trump administration, Scheppele underlined [24] that the markers of a falling democracy — "politicizing independent institutions, spreading disinformation, amassing executive power, quashing dissent, and corrupting elections—form a sort of authoritarian playbook, mirroring what scholars have observed in declining democracies around the world, in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and Venezuela" (page 29) could also be found in the actions of president Donald Trump, and she tried to "illuminate similarities in the hopes that we can recognize them early enough to prevent the United States from drifting any further down these roads" (page 37).