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.
