"The irony is that when people create a strong man, they create a weak God. And there's this sense that we have to defend God. God must be pretty weak if God needs our defense so strongly."

~ Angela Denker

#Trump #Hegseth #strongmen #authoritarianism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/reality-in-ruins-truth-and-conspiracy

"Then Magyar appeared on the state television network that spent sixteen years lying for Orbán. He told the anchors to their faces it was a North Korean-style propaganda machine, and announced he’s shutting it down the moment he takes power.

Much of what Orbán built is being dismantled. Trump’s accomplices should be paying attention, because MAGA is next."

#Orbán #Magyar #Trump #JDVance #CPAC #Hungary #strongmen #corruption
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"The corruption is already surfacing. Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar revealed this week that Orbán’s government was wasting Hungarian tax dollars to fund Trump’s CPAC for years. Magyar called it a 'criminal offense' that 'will have to be investigated.' The new government is cutting off all funding immediately."

~ Scott Dworkin

#Orbán #Magyar #Trump #JDVance #CPAC #Hungary #strongmen #corruption
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/arrest-warrant-out-for-ice-agent

A lesson Jennifer Rubin thinks progressive Americans would be well-advised to learn from Orbán's defeat:

"Broad coalitions are essential. Though certain issues are dealbreakers (e.g., reform, democracy), constituencies need not agree on everything. Purity tests are for losers."

Purity politics are the bane of left-wing groups in the US. They do the dirty work of fascism — dividing us — for the right.

#Orbán #Trump #Hungary #strongmen #corruption #PurityPolitics
/2

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/undaunted-in-hungary

"Orbán’s removal would send a timely signal to the rest of the world about to deal with the monsters, large and small, who are now threatening global peace, prosperity, and stability while also destroying whatever moral authority the West still possesses."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Both have held their offices by clinging to bigoted, authoritarian, homophobic, anti-Muslim views and actions that are poisoning much of the Middle East and Europe. …

Both Netanyahu and Orbán also have the support of the Trump regime and its white, Christian, nationalist cultural warriors."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"The biggest authoritarian monsters of our time — Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping — have bred smaller monsters who seem less dangerous than the big ones but are causing almost as much chaos and cruelty.

I’m talking especially about Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungary’s Victor Orbán."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tomorrows-election-that-merits-your