JJTurnerApr 8, 2025
Anne Applebaum
Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32-nUUL00S0iJYV6XMGPBZo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Orbán’s Hungary Could Be America’s Future

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

The Atlantic
Apr 7, 2025 at 4:09pmWeb
Show threadRobin BartonApr 7, 2025
@anneapplebaum Anne- brilliant article and I agree that it is a sad but accurate forecast of America's future. I hope we are both wrong
Show threadSable Shade🇦🇺🍉🗝🇵🇸🇺🇦Apr 7, 2025
@anneapplebaum
Yeah, so does plain vanilla, staight out the box greed
Or capitalism, if you prefer
Or perhaps you rather your poverty with a dash of elitism and your corruption with a sprig of cronyism
All the flavours all the time
All the gold watches and all the kings phlegm
Couldn't put a stop to us 'cause, what would you do then¿
Show threadFallsMom 🌻Apr 8, 2025

@anneapplebaum

Makes me think back to tv show "The Americans" when US resident Martha is living in Moscow. . . and the grocery is pretty grim

Show threadAndrocatApr 8, 2025

@anneapplebaum The corruption is the whole point of right-wing populism (nazism, fascism, what-have-you).
The people who run that sort of movement see it as a way to enrich themselves.

The cruelty is just performative.
They do it to claim "effectiveness" with their sucker voters, whom they aim to fleece.

This was always the case with the far right. Always.

All their talking points and hatreds-du-jour are just window dressing.

Show threadegri-nagyMay 12, 2025

@anneapplebaum

The Dynasty - How the Orbán family’s economic empire was born

with English subtitle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ4SXv9qJHM

A dinasztia (The Dynasty) - így született az Orbán család gazdasági birodalma

YouTube