Viktor Orban

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• SOURCE: Project Syndicate
  3/13/2023
  

  The Anti-Populist Dilemma

  by Jan-Werner Müller

  From Turkey to Hungary to Israel, forming a lasting coalition of parties against a right-wing authoritarian populist has proven easier said than done. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  2/8/2023
  

  The Poetics and Politics of Historical Memory in Hungary

  by Gábor Schein

  Gábor Schein offers a "poetry of witness" for the mutilation of history in service of Hungarian nationalism. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  8/4/2022
  

  Orban's American Apologists

  by John Ganz

  Why is the leader of a small and politically insignificant European nation suddenly a celebrated hero for the American right? Orban's brand of nationalism represents a test of how far ethnonationalists can go in public. 

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• SOURCE: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused (Substack)
  8/1/2022
  

  CPAC's Orban Fandom in Historical Context

  by Jason Tebbe

  Orbanism resonates with today's American right because it explicitly rejects liberalism, involves the masses in politics while rigging the system for favorable outcomes, and gets its power from resentment of marginalized “outsiders," galvanizing a group feeling its demographic and cultural position decline. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/19/2022
  

  Bringing CPAC to Hungary Betrays the Roots of the Conservative Movement

  by Lauren Lassabe

  It is a bitter irony that the postwar American conservative movement was energized by the anti-Stalinist Hungarian revolution of the 1950s; today the movement takes inspiration from a repressive regime and its autocratic leader. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  1/18/2022
  

  Orban and Putin Don't do Debates Either

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  The news that the Republican National Committee will boycott the Commission on Presidential Debates echoes the actions of authoritarians who reject the principle of political toleration and the very legitimacy of the opposition. 

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• SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
  10/25/2021
  

  John Ganz and Lauren Stokes on the American Right's Hungary Hearts

  Historian Lauren Stokes helps to explain the American right's embrace of Viktor Orban and the right-wing regime in Hungary. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/5/2021
  

  Why Tucker Carlson went to Hungary

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Tucker Carlson's PR visit to Orban's Hungary echoes the tribute paid by leaders of the American right to racist regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s, and reflect the ongoing fantasy of the right to rule free of constraints of law and democratic norms. 

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  8/2/2021
  

  Letters from an American: The Rising Appeal of Hungary on the US Right

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Tucker Carlson's fawning visit to Viktor Orban's Hungary, at a time when the right is mobilizing to subvert future American elections, is an ominous signal of the growing contempt for democracy on the right. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  "Without Pressure from Germany": Hungary's Revisionist History of the Deportation of 18,000 Jews

  by Karl Pfeifer

  The Hungarian government has sought to deny and obscure its responsibility for the deportation of Jews beginning in 1941. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/27/2021
  

  Hungary Transfers 11 Universities to Foundations Led by Orban Allies

  "Critics immediately denounced the move as a government handover of both public education and a vast network of public assets — including real estate and shares in Hungarian companies — to Mr. Orban and his supporters."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  Coronavirus Kills Its First Democracy

  You could say that Hungary was already “immunocompromised.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-28-2018
  

  Hungarians Fume as Statue of Former Leader Is Downgraded

  Imre Nagy, the communist prime minister executed for rebelling against the Soviet Union, is a hero to many in Hungary — but not to its far-right government.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  3-7-17
  

  The new authoritarians

  by Holly Case

  Last century’s dictators wanted to reinvent their subjects as "new men." This century’s strongmen just don’t care. Why?

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  10-17-15
  

  Ottomans saved Hungarian PM Orban’s Ancestors; now he says Islam never part of Europe

  by Juan Cole

  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban not only continued to defend his anti-immigrant bigotry but went on to say that Islam has never been part of Europe.