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Hungary: the new right’s squalid dystopia

Hungary: the new right’s squalid dystopia

Viktor Orbán led the way for Trump

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Apr 02, 2025
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People who were paying attention in the early 2000s might have predicted the disaster that has befallen the West.

Conservatives in the era of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan said that they believed in free markets and free societies. And yet as the 21st century wore on people who called themselves Thatcherites and Reaganites began to celebrate a seed…

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