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Originally Posted by Dondilion
The US is set and organized totally different from Hungary and Turkey.
The US has multiple layers of protection.
So often the intricacy of the system tied up Trump.
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You are correct, US is different from Hungary and Turkey.
Here Trump has raised over $125M claiming voter fraud of which no proof has been offered nor discovered. Erdogan can simply help himself from their treasury and stay in office indefinitely, which Trump envied. Orban has been evolving from a PM to a dictator since 2010 and remains to be seen if he gets displaced next year but I very much doubt it. This may explain the admiration that the Trumpers have for Orban.
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Still, over the past decade, Orbán has become something of a hero to conservatives throughout Europe, and has piqued the interest of the American right wing as well. Last week, Tucker Carlson visited Hungary and, over dinner, lauded the Prime Minister as someone that the West could learn from. On Sunday, in the Times, the conservative columnist Ross Douthat explained some of Orbán’s appeal. “It’s not just his anti-immigration stance or his moral traditionalism,” Douthat wrote. “It’s that his interventions in Hungarian cultural life, the attacks on liberal academic centers and the spending on conservative ideological projects, are seen as examples of how political power might curb progressivism’s influence.”
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Sounds like a one party system in the making to me. Hungary is an EU member, so Orban has to play by their rules publicly, but he is a mini Putin in the making.
If the Republicans had not lost control of the House in 2018, wonder where we would be today. Remember the GOP Senate refused to honestly impeach Trump twice, not even for organizing an insurrection.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and...s-viktor-orban