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    HUNGARIAN NATIONALISM IS A DEAD END

    Nov 19, 2021 4 minutes
    MATT WELCH

    FOR THE GROWING majority of Americans who do not approve of Joe Biden’s job performance as president, scanning the landscape for potential successors reveals a depressing reality: The road to the GOP presidential nomination apparently now runs through Budapest. It’s a lovely city but a revealingly inappropriate setting to locate inspiration for the new American nationalism still being workshopped by the professional political right.

    In September, hot on the heels of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, former Vice President Mike Pence became the latest high-profile American conservative to trade with the proudly “illiberal” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on his home turf. “I want to applaud Prime Minister Orbán for choosing to make family the

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