Orban's Right-Wing Regime in Hungary Serves as Model for US Conservatives

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Wrote about how Viktor Orbán’s right-wing regime is serving as a model for U.S. conservatives and they don't even bother to hide it, as CPAC in Hungary shows.

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Orbán's Right-Wing Regime in Hungary Serves as Model for US Conservatives (OPINION - Latino Rebels
Last week, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, hosted its latest event in Hungary, with the increasingly repressive and undemocratic government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor...
9:20 AM · May 26, 2022

https://www.latinorebels.com/2022/05/26/cpachungary/


MIAMI — Last week, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, hosted its latest event in Hungary, with the increasingly repressive and undemocratic government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as its political backdrop. Sharing the stage with Orbán were prominent Republican figures like Florida Congressmen Mario Díaz-Balart and Mike Waltz, Maryland Congressman Andy Harris, former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Fox News host and Great Replacement theory enthusiast Tucker Carlson.

CPAC has always been a pretty unhinged event. I attended a recent event in Orlando, Florida. It felt like a cult meeting, with life-sized gold statues of Donald Trump, attendees proudly sporting QAnon gear, and breakout rooms with panels dedicated to the fraudulent claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

There’s a clear ideological project by conservatives in the United States that conflicts with the goal of a free and inclusive democracy. Conservatives have always been pretty hypocritical when it comes to their pretensions around working toward smaller government. After all, President George W. Bush massively ballooned government spending through his illegal invasion of Iraq and bloated government bureaucracy by creating the Department of Homeland Security.

Through the inconsistency of the conservative prescription of “do as I say, not as I do,” there has always been the pretense of maintaining an ideological line that respected liberal democracy and rejected government power as a tool. That pretension is now gone.

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