According to the left-liberal Huffington Post, after the defeat of the American conservatives last year, Viktor Orbán became the new favorite of Donald Trump's disappointed supporters. Of course, in the newspaper's interpretation, it sounds like this: the overseas right cannot help praising "the former Soviet vassal state", which is "sliding back into autocracy". Heather Conley, regional director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, considers the Republican Party's enthusiasm for Viktor Orbán to be very dangerous.
According to the newspaper, this fandom is also reflected in the fact that Tucker Carlson broadcast Fox News' evening political show from the Hungarian capital for a week; the Conservative Political Action Conference holds its congress here in the spring; And former Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the Demographic Summit held in Budapest last month.
The Huffington Post assessed it as follows: the overseas right cannot help glorifying "the former Soviet vassal state", which is "sliding back into autocracy". According to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University, all roads lead to Orbán's Budapest these days for the Republican Party, the right-wing press, and political allies.
Heather Conley, regional director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, considers the Republican Party's enthusiasm for Viktor Orbán to be very dangerous. Because although there are common elements in the political program of Viktor Orbán and the Republicans - both consider faith and traditional values as "tools" and use them to mobilize and "pocket political profit" - the very big problem is that the Orbán system its "anti-democratic nature" is also becoming more and more popular, Conley believes.
And then the usual ballib mantra:
Meanwhile, supporters of human rights and democracy are condemning the Hungarian leader - the newspaper quotes -: according to Human Rights Watch, for example, Hungary is only a partially free country, and the EU is punishing the Orbán cabinet, as - in their opinion - it violates the basic principles of the organization .
At the same time, the former president of the American Conservative Association (ACU) is somewhat shocked by the uproar around Hungary: he believes that Viktor Orbán is not a politician who should be imitated because of his values, the article states.
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