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Hungary's situation is quite misrepresented by western media though, which is super counterproductive. The often clueless bullshit westerners say is used by the Orban admin as "proof" of a "western industrialist conspiracy against a sovereign East Central European nation." Orban's system should have its own category because it is a nepotistic kleptocracy that is ruled by soft power using the blueprints of post '56 Goulash Communism (Orban started out as a Soros-funded anti-comminist liberal). It was a well-tested system so it required nobody murdered or even imprisoned while lining it out and maintaining it, which is a major major difference from Putin, Erdogan or Lukashenko. Hungary did not have a violent coup d'état, there was a very gradual takeover over 8 years which was enabled by constitutional amendments and gerrymandering harnessing the EU as a pressure valve. The angriest just emigrated within the EU (multilingual young liberals).I’m floored that Carlson, for all his craziness, has the gall to travel to the most tyrannical country in Europe and hold it up as a blueprint for America to follow.
I wonder if there’s a percentage of his viewers for whom this is…too much.
It says something that Carlson feels empowered enough that he’s boldly coming out and saying he’d like the US to be a dictatorship. The man seems to be vying with Trump and maybe Michael Flynn for the title of America’s Craziest Would-Be Despot.
Orban can be fervently anti-immigration because Hungary is a transit nation at best, definitely not a destination for immigration (the sophisticated defense is that based on Dublin Treaty II it could be forced into becoming one). So Orban's method is to create a boogeyman that everybody heard of but most (in rural places) hadn't seen. With COVID, they had to find a new boogeyman, hence the attacks on the "LGBTQ lobby" (Orban's admins' terminology). So the recent "child protection" (anti-LGBTQ) law served this purpose. What they didn't seem to realize is that a LOT of gay people live in Hungary, they just aren't necessarily out so they got a lot more backlash than they anticipated.
I'll add that Orban's alliance with the tuckeroids is more pragmatic than ideological. Tucker's stupid shit on vaccinations and COVID would not fly in Orban's regime which is totally against the corporatist libertarian value system.
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