Cathy Young surveys the response of the American right (read: MAGA) to Orbán's defeat and concludes that those folks aren't taking the loss well. Elon Musk predictably goes low (and antisemitic) by lamenting that Soros (!) has taken over Hungary. Others like Rod Dreher want to pretend that Orbán's concession to Magyar proves that he was always about democracy and not autocracy.

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/13

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nationalist-right-orban-loss-election-mourning-hungary-vance-dreher

"They insist the country is being stolen, that real people are losing control, that chaos is spreading. ...

Moral and media panics are not incidental to this project; they are its central tools."

#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
/12

"If you pull these threads together—Reconstruction and Redemption, the Know‑Nothings, McCarthyism, the crime panics—you see different versions of the same playbook. Something changes in the direction of greater equality or pluralism. New voices insist on being heard. In response, elites and would‑be strongmen sound the alarm."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
/11

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/history-as-a-mirror

"Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with stones hurled at 'them' — whether 'they' are immigrants, Iranians, or anyone else who doesn’t fit the white Christian nationalist mold."

#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
/10

"The war in Iran has made everything — even Stephen Miller’s war on immigrants — feel like the Strait of Hormuz....

Miller and Trump, on the other hand, want to fuel bigotry. Their entire project depends on hate."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #StephenMiller #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #hate
/9

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/steven-millers-strait-of-hormuz

"Because Orbán’s administration has used antisemitism as a political tool throughout his time in power, and is desperately turning to this hatred once again on its way, possibly, out the electoral door. ...

This playbook has clear resonances in that deployed by Trump."

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/9

"There is much that Americans can learn from the Hungarian experience of years spent under the governance of someone accused of dismantling rule of law, a person whose inner circle has grown rich during his time in office. But American Jews in particular should pay attention."

~ Emily Tamkin

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/8

https://forward.com/opinion/818143/orban-hungary-election-antisemitism/

"Even during his infamous DoorDash delivery this week, Trump clumsily interjected 'men playing women’s sports' into a staged conversation about taxes on tips. The forced non sequitur was awkward for its obviousness."

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/7

"Critics also describe how Orbán routinely created 'imaginary enemies' to distract voters, another Hitlerian maneuver perfected by Trump. From falsely depicting immigrants as violent criminals, to accusing DEI programs of ‘white bashing,’ Trump constantly stokes social division by creating then perpetuating imaginary enemies."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/6

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/if-hungary-can-do-it-so-can-we