America’s Future Is Hungary - Other News - Voices against the tide

"We were mocked, we were at a dead end, but now our politics are at the center of things," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after Donald Trump's second inauguration as US president this year. He has been in power without interruption for fifteen years, ruling with a constitutional majority, and from this perspective he is one of the most successful European politicians of our time, constantly moving and changing his country - developin…

America’s Future Is Hungary - Other News - Voices against the tide

By Anne Applebaum* – The Atlantic MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished. Flashy hotels and upmarket restaurants now dominate the center of Budapest, a city once better known for its shabby facades. New monuments have sprung up in the center of town too. One of them, a pastiche of the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., mourns Hungary’s lost 19th-century empire. Instead of war de…