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Viktor Orbán and his American sycophants

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives the keynote speech during an extraordinary session of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Balna cultural centre of Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2022.(ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Next week Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas. What might the embrace of 'Orbánism' mean for the American right, and democracy more broadly?

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Andrew Gawthorpe, historian of the United States at Leiden University and the host of the podcast America Explained.

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World Politics, Community and Society
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