While the countries are quite different, the political projects of Orban and Trump have lots of parallels. Their two parties have had many connections and talk often about their common cause. Like or dislike Trump, if you want to know with this new consolidated power, look to Hungary. Orban was able to transform his country and consolidate power, in ways Trump admires.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-orbanisation-of-america-hungarys-lessons-for-donald-trump/
If we remove all the "scare words", Orban's playbook is strikingly similar to Obama, Biden and Kamala's.
He just serves different masters.
I don't think Trump has the organisation or attention span to launch a similar effort in America.
Democracy makes gains when elites are divided and distracted. I'm optimistic, but we, globally, need to make it happen.
Obama didn’t shutdown independent universities or all opposition ngo’s in the country.
He did have them all audited, and pulled the not-for-profit status of many.
Term limits are a real bitch for that kind of project lol
Obama was a brilliant, methodical insider and team player. Like Orban.
Trump is none of those.
In ways that Trump has no hope of emulating given the constraints he faces, which Orban doesn’t.
It’s like tech debt - you can’t just handwave that shit away in the real world, that’s not how it works, but that’s essentially what you’re saying even though you never would if the topic was tech debt.
"the political projects of Orban and Trump have lots of parallels"
Yes, they both want to act within the system to gain power and then use that power to do what they think (perhaps mistakenly) is best for the people of their nation.
You know WHO ELSE wanted to do what he thought was best for his nation?
