The American right’s growing embrace of Orbán builds upon millions of dollars that his government has spent on lobbying in the US, and new connections between Hungarian and American conservative think tanks.
“Make America great again, make Europe great again!” Orbán declared in English, before continuing in Hungarian: “Go Donald Trump!
Conservatives from around the US, Europe and beyond traveled to Budapest for the two-day event, which was organized by a Hungarian government-funded think tank.
Two American nonprofits that are actively planning policies for a second Trump term have shown an interest in Hungary and Orbán’s model.
But some of the American conservatives who flew into the country for CPAC seemed more focused on the optics of Budapest than on democratic rights.
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