Why Radical GOPers Love Hungary's Authoritarian Viktor Orban

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/embeds/2022/07/51431.jpg" //divpWhy does the extremist right wing love Hungarian's authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orban? Because he goes even further than Trump, and that's not a good sign for our faltering democracy. a href="https://apnews.com/article/elections-donald-trump-dallas-marjorie-taylor-greene-6834776bcc1f65800a615b0745302be5"Via the AP:/a/p

blockquotepOrban has curbed immigration and stymied those who envision a more middle-of-the-road European democracy for their country. He’s done so by seizing control of Hungary’s judiciary and media, leading many international analysts to label him as the face of a new wave of authoritarianism. He also is accused of enabling widespread corruption and nepotism, using state resources to enrich a tight circle of political allies./p

pThe U.S. conservative movement’s embrace of Orban comes as it echoes Trump’s lies that he did not lose the 2020 presidential election, punishes Republicans who tried to hold him accountable for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and embrace new voting restrictions. Many experts on Hungarian politics fear the GOP might aspire to Orban’s tactics./p

p“The Trumpist side of the Republican Party is coming for the rhetoric, but staying for the autocracy,” said Kim L. Schepple, a sociologist at Princeton University who has studied Orban. “I’m worried the attraction to Orban is only superficially the culture war stuff strongand more deeply about how to prevent power from ever rotating out of their hands.”/strong/ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2022/07/why-radical-gopers-love-hungarys" target="_blank"read more/a/p