Viktor Orban was elected Prime Minister of Hungary in 2010. He has made changes to the election laws to ensure that his party, Fidesz, will control a supermajority in Parliament. Party discipline is tight; no one challenges his rule.
Policies have been put into place to counter Hungary’s low birthrate. Hungarian babies are subsidized; immigrant babies are not. Orban talks about leading a “Christian civilization,” and he has outlawed protections for gays.
He is using the power of the state to control the media and to roll back certain kinds of education, much like many conservative state legislatures are trying to roll back the teaching of any history that discusses the dark side of the American past. There are reasons Tucker Carlson visited Hungary and praised its government.
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