Hungary Elections April 2026: Orbán Concedes to Pro-European Populist Party

[lenaitch]

Except a strong affinity for Putin's Russia...

And a distain/suspicion of Europe; a long standing US view.

 

[The Bread Guy]

And a distain/suspicion of Europe; a long standing US view.

And a very different approach to acceptance (or more specifically non-acceptance) of migrants when most of the rest of Europe was accepting them.

 

[Eaglelord17]

I could never understand the fascination some on the American right had for Orban’s Hungary. For one thing, it had nothing in common with the American conservative tradition. But most of all, it’s a small, landlocked country with a declining population and the poorest economy in the EU. There is nothing to emulate from an American conservative perspective.

A nationalist, ethnocentric political movement which focused strongly on population growth by birth instead of immigration with a strong rejection of diversity and focus on ‘traditional values’.

It appeals to social conservatives.