What will Republicans take home from CPAC in Hungary? | #197 – May 22, 2022
The GOP travels to Viktor Orban's self-described "illiberal Christian democracy"
The news this weekend is all about a meeting of America’s Conservative Political Action Committee in Hungary. The meeting, which usually happens in America, departed from traditions to see what the right could learn from Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister and an outspoken opponent of the free press, multiculturalism, and liberal democracy. Here are his own words, from a speech he delivered in 2014:
We have abandoned liberal methods and principles of organizing society, as well as the liberal way to look at the world. … This is about the ongoing reorganization of the Hungarian state. Contrary to the liberal state organization logic of the past twenty years, this is a state organization originating from national interests.
And, in a 2009 speech, he said:
a real chance that politics in Hungary will no longer be defined by a dualist power space. Instead, a large governing party will emerge in the center of the political …
