Opinion | Trump hosting Hungary's Victor Orban will only encourage the global far right

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Opinion | James Kirchick: 'European Parliament elections are right around the corner, and this visit will only elevate the illiberal forces that Orban and his party represent.' - NBCNewsTHINK

Orban has largely gotten away with all of this by skillfully appealing to conservative politicians, activists and intellectuals across the Western world with an anti-immigration, anti-E.U. mantra, and it is this message that has attracted Trump’s favor.

Since the collapse of communism 30 years ago, those interests have consisted of three major objectives: strengthening the European Union, guarding against Russian interference and bolstering liberal democracy. On all three fronts, Orban has been at best unhelpful, at worst, counterproductive.Hungary to “partly free” status, the first European Union country and first post-communist country to experience such a decline, putting it at the forefront of democratic backsliding in Europe.

 

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