Ben Rhodes shows precisely how current GOP ideology matches Hungary's Orban
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..and how far the US has already gone down the road to RW authoritarianism since GOP has been pushing the destruction of Democracy for at least a decade.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478032506033106944.html
1. The sad thing about Trump's endorsement of Orban is how unsurprising it is. In my book After the Fall, I start with the parallels between the GOP and Orban because we aren't headed for a Hungary model - we are almost there. This has been Orban's playbook:
2. It's worth remembering that this GOP playbook long predated Trump and really became the Party's defining project in the Obama years.
3. This remains true: "Orbán has shown that after winning an election, a leader and his party can dismantle democracy while offering the public a constant cocktail of nationalism and hatred. That, I fear, is what a second Trump term will yield."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-orbanism/612658/
4. In addition to trashing democracy, another awkward reality for GOP hawks / Trump sycophants like Rubio, Cruz, Lindsey Grahm, etc is that Orban has aggressively courted Russia and increasingly China.
5. Orban made this argument explicitly in 2014, wrapping affinity for Russia and China in ideological and practical terms. Trump just says out loud what the GOP has long accepted: they prefer autocracy to liberal democracy.
MORE at the link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478032506033106944.html
ORIGINAL Twitter thread:
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"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy." - David Frum
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