So what do MAGA and other right wingers really like about Viktor Orban?
So I’ve been hearing and reading a bit about Orban lately, and I guess I get why MAGA loves him. They love him because he’s made Hungary mostly white and he’s making laws that allow traditionalist Christianity to dominate. An article on Slate made the analogy that Hungary is to MAGA what Scandinavia is to the American Left.
But does Orban have any selling points to people who aren’t MAGA and crazy? People that don’t especially want white Christian nationalists to dominate everything? What else do y’all love about Orban? Is it the widespread corruption? Or the poverty?
I mean as a liberal I’d like to live in Scandinavia not because it’s the opposite of Hungary, it’s not. It’s not especially ethnically or religiously diverse. What I dig about Scandinavia is stuff that should appeal to most everyone. First and foremost, they dominate the Happiness Index. Who doesn’t want to be happy? I guess unless you’re more focused on making people who are different from you unhappy. They’ve got excellent, cost-efficient healthcare, the best education (and no homework), they’re wealthy countries with hardly any poverty or homelessness.
I just read an article in the Telegraph by an Orban supporter, and it was kinda like this:
[Viktor Orban will be back in power, because what the chattering liberals don’t get is that he’s successful. Their argument boils down to, “Orban’s only great because his staff and his opposition and the media and everyone is trying to make him look great.” Yeah right. He was really young when he got elected to be Hungary’s leader, and he’s the only guy to get elected in Hungary four times since the Nineteenth Century. That makes him the GOAT!]
I’m like, okay…so he’s great because he got elected? Never mind that he’s an authoritarian and the elections were heavily rigged in his favor.
All of that to say, why should the average American want to see Orban’s policies implemented in the US?
But does Orban have any selling points to people who aren’t MAGA and crazy? People that don’t especially want white Christian nationalists to dominate everything? What else do y’all love about Orban? Is it the widespread corruption? Or the poverty?
I mean as a liberal I’d like to live in Scandinavia not because it’s the opposite of Hungary, it’s not. It’s not especially ethnically or religiously diverse. What I dig about Scandinavia is stuff that should appeal to most everyone. First and foremost, they dominate the Happiness Index. Who doesn’t want to be happy? I guess unless you’re more focused on making people who are different from you unhappy. They’ve got excellent, cost-efficient healthcare, the best education (and no homework), they’re wealthy countries with hardly any poverty or homelessness.
I just read an article in the Telegraph by an Orban supporter, and it was kinda like this:
[Viktor Orban will be back in power, because what the chattering liberals don’t get is that he’s successful. Their argument boils down to, “Orban’s only great because his staff and his opposition and the media and everyone is trying to make him look great.” Yeah right. He was really young when he got elected to be Hungary’s leader, and he’s the only guy to get elected in Hungary four times since the Nineteenth Century. That makes him the GOAT!]
I’m like, okay…so he’s great because he got elected? Never mind that he’s an authoritarian and the elections were heavily rigged in his favor.
All of that to say, why should the average American want to see Orban’s policies implemented in the US?
