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Trump’s love for Viktor Orbán hints at what another Trump term will look like (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave to c/politics
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The ex-president recently hosted the Hungarian kleptocrat, whom he’s called a ‘strong man’ and a real ‘boss’, at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump has not only run the Republican primaries like an incumbent, but on occasion, he gets to play-act the role of president right at home. On Friday, he hosted Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister,, for a quasi-state visit at his Mar-a-Lago estate, described by discerning critics as “the palace of a CEO-president-king, done up in the opulent dictator-chic favored by third-world kleptocrats”.

Orbán has spent the past 14 years making his country into a kleptocratic autocracy right in the middle of the European Union. Obviously, Trump does not need general guidance from Orbán; he is already endowed with authoritarian instincts. But, for all the obvious differences between Orbán’s small European nation and the US, Orbán’s rule holds concrete lessons which the American right is ready to adopt. Given the excitement with which Trump acolytes have been promoting Orbán – and their frequent pilgrimages to Budapest as the capital of “national conservatism” – Hungary offers a preview of a second Trump term.

Lesson number one: if you want to control the country, you must completely control your own party. After losing two successive national elections at the beginning of this century, it looked like Orbán’s career might be finished. Instead, he managed to govern his Fidesz party with an iron grip. It is not an accident that far-right populist leaders everywhere treat their parties as personal vehicles, with no real internal debates, let alone dissent, tolerated.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

lol these aren’t hints. He’s literally fuckin shouting that he’d be America’s first dictator. It is neither subtle nor ambiguous.

[–] agent_flounder 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

BuT oNlY oN DaY ONe!!1! hurr durr

[–] CobblerScholar 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fucking Guardian....Hints?!? He might as well be using every side of every skyscraper in New York to advertise that he will think of himself and act like a facistic dictator free from consequence upon election. To say anything less is irresponsible at best

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I agree with you, but to be fair to the Guardian this is an opinion piece by someone who only writes for them once every couple of months

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Trump saying "I'm going to be a dictator" hints at what another term would look like.

[–] xc2215x 4 points 6 months ago

Trump loves dictators.

[–] whygohomie 1 points 6 months ago

Yup. It'll be Trump's surrender tour.