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"U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism" and

Episode Summary

It's an Orban-twofer! From Matt Welch. First, Kleptocratic Hungarian leader, under fire for "mixed race" speech, condemns America for weaponizing energy, antagonizing Russia, and incubating gender "lunacy" ("U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism"), and second, the Hungarian prime minister also makes the historically illiterate claim that Christians can't be racist ("Viktor Orbán Flatters Republicans With the Lie That Progressive Liberals and Communists Are 'the Same'"). Plus all the Welch-isms and asides and accent attempts you've come to love!

Episode Notes

A reading of "U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism" and "Viktor Orbán Flatters Republicans With the Lie That Progressive Liberals and Communists Are 'the Same'", by Matt Welch, published at Reason on August 3 and August 5, respectively.

Related listening: Related listening: "Hungarian Nationalism Is a Dead End," and "No Self-Respecting American Should Aspire to Hungarian-Style Nationalism