The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States.
That’s because Donald Trump and many U.S. conservatives have long embraced Orbán, who has become an icon among the global right for his anti-immigrant stance.
The American president’s agenda has striking parallels with the way the Hungarian leader used the levers of government to tilt the media, judiciary and electoral system to keep his party in power for 16 years.
UK fascists are impacted too. A lot of money (hundreds of thousands of pounds, at least) came from Orban and his cronies through various rightwing think tanks to the Reform Party.
Of course it’s a blow, Trump and his administration are Putin’s stooges and complete fucking traitors to their own country! It’s right out there in the open and they are getting away with it, all while robbing America blind and fucking shit up for the rest of us. It’s as infuriating as it is disgusting.
If you want to lose your election, get team Donvict to curse you with their endorsement. The war crime and sex crime endorsement!
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is good news, maybe more will follow. Let’s keep building a good life for all.
Why not?
