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Why the Right Is Drawn to Hungary

JL;DR SUMMARY Viktor Orbán's Hungary has become a magnet for right-wing leaders globally, including Netanyahu, Trump, and Miliei, due to its unique political evolution since its transition from communism. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Donald TrumpNetanyahuHungaryJavier MileiNationalismEuropean UnionRight Wing PoliticsViktor OrbánCommunism1956 Hungarian Uprising

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a high-profile meeting with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbn, in Budapest."
Budapest, Hungary
"Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a high-profile meeting with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbn, in Budapest."
Argentina
"Argentinas libertarian president, Javier Milei, has called Orbn his comrade in this fight for the ideas of freedom, and Italys Giorgia Meloni is Orbns Christian sister."
Italy
"Argentinas libertarian president, Javier Milei, has called Orbn his comrade in this fight for the ideas of freedom, and Italys Giorgia Meloni is Orbns Christian sister."
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
"Last year, Donald Trump hosted the Hungarian leader three times at Mar-a-Lago."
Vienna, Austria
"Orbn also forced George Soros Central European University to relocate to Vienna in 2018, in part because it subverted his immigration policy."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"Prague in the Czech Republic is probably the only European city that can compete with Budapest as a place where a Jew wearing a kippah can walk in the streets unmolested and without fear."

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