Want to know what Republicans have in mind for America’s future? Just visit Hungary.
While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with President Biden this week to ask our help defending his democracy against the brutal, violent aggression of Russia, Republican lawmakers in DC were meeting behind closed doors at a Heritage Foundation event with representatives of Hungary’s strongman president Viktor Orbán. It got almost no press coverage at all, other than The Guardian.
Orbán has been cozying up to Putin for years and is now blocking EU aid to Ukraine on Putin’s behalf (the EU is meeting today about the crisis he’s provoking); his representatives were reportedly trying this week to get Republicans in Congress to join them so, together, they can hand Europe’s largest country over to Russia.
At the same time, Orbán himself was overseeing a new round of laws in Hungary criminalizing any sort of free press in that nation. Under the rubric of “defense of national sovereignty,” Orbán’s new law, as Barron’s reported Tuesday, “could be used to crack down on dissent against […]
Did you notice the disappearance from the media of the horrors from the Bush administration, Karl Rove and Grover Norquist, to name just two of the orchestrators of the toxic neoliberalism that has ruined the US for all but a few? These characters have been replaced by mastermind Stephen Harper, Canada’s worst ever prime minister (destroyed public education, public health care, and the principle of one person-one vote). When Canadians kicked this scoundrel out of office, he formed the International Democracy Union, which puts extremists like Orban into office through terror and highly sophisticated propaganda campaigns like we see every day here in the benighted US. To keep tabs on where these monsters are active, Stephen Harper is the one to keep an eye on. This Orban- Putin thing is a distraction from the real social undermining underway by Harperand the IDU.