Hungarian authoritarian Kremlin stooge Viktor Orban is facing election, and from all indictions he's not doing well, despite a last minute push from J(unior) D(ictator)Vance to endorse his candidacy. From Salon.com:
"Orbán has ruled Hungary for 16 uninterrupted years, for most of that time with an unassailable legislative supermajority. As reporters have told us endlessly over the past decade or so, he was 'Trump before Trump,' and the truism is at least partly accurate.
As Hungarian journalist Ivan L. Nagy puts it, Orbán has survived and prospered through an ingenious pattern of 'shadowboxing' against an ever-shifting cast of 'make-believe enemies,' telling the conservative and nationalistic elements of the Hungarian public that only he can save them from dark-skinned immigrants, European bureaucrats, meddling American liberals, the globalist plots of Hungarian-born George Soros, LGBTQ activists, 'gender ideology' and wokeness. It isn’t entirely fair to say he built his regime on veiled or coded racism, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia and trans panic; for the most part, it wasn’t coded at all. [snip]
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Orbán’s principal target has been Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is supposedly in league with Brussels apparatchiks and other sinister forces (all of them more or less identified as Jewish) in a conspiracy against the Hungarian economy, heterosexual marriage and so on. None of that has any logical coherence, but do I need to explain to Americans under the second Trump administration how little that matters?" (our emphasis0
Orban has been long been doing the Kremlin's bidding for years, and is war criminal Putin's staunchest ally in the West. He represents a strain in European politics of anti-Semitism and exclusion that fits with the Kremlin's underlying philosophy. The Trump regime has been working to elect their authoritarian allyy. But he's unpopular at home, given his inability to control prices and his obvious subordination to his backer in Moscow. In other words, his similarity to the unfit and corrupt Malignant Fascist. We'll see if the equally corrupt and beholden to Moscow Orban is finally tossed out, or whether he'll cheat his way back and give the MAGAts the incentive to do the same here.
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