Mastodawn

"Which is why all the Putin puppets who have benefitted from it, including what Magyar credibly calls a false flag attack designed to give Orbán cause to at least fearmonger if not threaten the election itself, have scrambled to preserve the project."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #oil
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/understanding-hungarys-upcoming-election

"High-level Trump people are filtering through Hungary and campaigning for Viktor Orban. But the connection goes deeper. It turns out that a lot of the MAGA movement has gotten its steam and gotten its training, in fact, from going to Budapest and hanging out at this place called the Danube Institute."

~ Kim Lane Scheppele

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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Understanding Hungary's Upcoming Election: Live with Professor Kim Scheppele

A recording from Joyce Vance's live video

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

"The Danube Institute is run by a guy who used to be editor of the National Review, which used to be a kind of mainstream Republican organization. And I guess when it tried to stay there as Magda came online, he comes to Hungary. There's a bunch of Americans working in Orbán's system that have ties to the MAGA movement."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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"The Heritage Foundation for the last —I think it's four years now —has had an annual, quote, geopolitical summit, putting in scare quotes, in September, where they bring in all the Heritage Foundation people, lots of MAGA folks, to do a seminar, a two-day kind of conference on foreign policy issues with Orbán's people and the right wing of Europe."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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"And all that has happened every year. So there's just lots of connections between what Viktor Orbán has set up in Hungary. And the Trump administration and the folks who have brought us the budding dictatorship, the growing dictatorship, perhaps also already a dictatorship here in the United States."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #JDVance #Russia #HeritageFoundation #DanubeInstitute
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-loses-hungarys-election

"If Orbán does lose, it will signal that there are limits to the ability of authoritarians in power even after they have consolidated their hold and rigged the playing field. The opposition faces an uphill task, but it can prevail with the right leader with a smart strategy."

Laszlo Gendler

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump
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If Orbán Loses Hungary's Election, It Will Dispel the Air of Invincibility Around Strongmen

This would prove that consolidating power does not protect authoritarians from self-destructing, especially when a smart opposition exploits their vulnerabilities

The UnPopulist

"If the Hungarian opposition wins, it will offer hope and lessons to liberals world over engaged in a struggle against authoritarianism."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/viktor-orban-trump-maga-power

"There’s a playbook for what’s happening in America. It’s been running for fifteen years in, of all places, Hungary—a small landlocked country in Central Europe. The architects of MAGA studied the Hungarian model closely, celebrated it openly and told us plainly that they wanted to copy it."

~ Jay Kuo

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #Russia #HeritageFoundation #MAGA
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Viktor Orbán Showed Trump And MAGA How To Consolidate Power

Now they’re both fighting for political survival

The Big Picture

"The template is Viktor Orbán’s illiberal state: a democracy in form only, where the courts, media, electoral rules and the economy are bent toward one party’s quest for a permanent grip on power.

For the American right, Orbán’s Hungary wasn’t just an interesting experiment. The Heritage Foundation declared it a governing template."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #Russia #HeritageFoundation #MAGA
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"Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon made the pilgrimage to Budapest. CPAC even held its conference there. The message was unambiguous: Show us how it’s done, so we can import it to the U.S."

#Orbán #Hungary #Putin #Trump #Russia #HeritageFoundation #MAGA
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