The family was at the center of Orbán's public policy efforts - they didn't just talk about social conservatism, they actually implemented it," Jeremy Carl points out in his analysis.
Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and former US President Donald Trump's internal affairs associate, wrote an analysis with this title in the columns of the American Greatness Carl states right from the start - after discussing the results - that the campaign containing conservative, patriotic, anti-immigration, and traditional pro-family elements played a key role in Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's victory, not to mention his firm stance condemning the Russian intervention in Ukraine.
"Americans may wonder why the American right-wing should pay so much attention to political developments in a country that is a quarter of the size of my home state, Montana, and whose population just reaches ten million," the author begins. "But the confusion may stem mostly from the fact that the post-liberal right completely misunderstands the strategic importance of Hungary, which I had the good fortune to experience personally, after participating in a five-week research trip before the voting," he writes.
During this time, the senior employee of the Claremont Institute had the good fortune to talk with several Hungarian politicians, including the prime minister; he was able to gain an insight into local conditions. "I could see what is the most important and controversial experiment in the so-called Christian democracy," he says.
Carl believes that Orbán offers the world's best example of how a conservative politician should run a state. (Something happened over there that the American right tried unsuccessfully and is still trying to do here.)
Because of his successes in Hungary, the left and its media declare the prime minister a "strongman", "dictator" and authoritarian leader, these free elections and the criticism of the system appearing in the local press show that, there is no mention of these - emphasizes the author, pointing out that the Hungarian Prime Minister they are mostly attacked with those that the left usually "perpetrates".
Thus, their ideological rise in the university, culture and other spheres, which the Hungarian right only wants to "balance". Despite all this, the American right can learn from Orbán's victory in the following points.
First : the Hungarian elections proved that the right-wing has something to earn in the bigger cities as well, not only in the countryside, says Carl. Second, the Hungarian Prime Minister pursues a realist foreign policy that refuses to fall prey to the "Ukrainian mania" that afflicts so many other right-wing politicians in the West. Thirdly: it was possible to obscure the "Christian-conservative" image of Péter Márki-Zay. Last but not least, the prime minister's family-oriented policy played a key role.
The family was at the center of Orbán's public policy efforts - they didn't just talk about social conservatism, they actually implemented it," the senior staff member of the Claremont Institute points out.
Source: mandiner.hu
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