The article is almost exclusively about Hungary. Last time I checked Eastern Europe was a bit larger than Hungary
This article is literally only about Hungary.
I really don’t like Americans weighing in on European matters.
Figures like Orbán have exactly defined themselves more in the light of modern American -style conversatives inside that sort of narrative bubble that has “liberalism” be a catchall term for the clusterfuck of contradiction that is the Democrat party, rather than in term of European political schema. No one has a problem with Hungary being a European-style conservative democracy, like Austria has historically been, and like Marki-Zay wants to make it.
But Hungary contradicts the very principles of “liberal democracy”, liberal as in obeying the principles of seperation of powers and rule of law. Stop confusing the waters by making the fight about social issues, or economic issues, when it is very clearly about the deeper apparatus of the state to give everyone, even supporters of Fidesz, a fair country.
It’s weird how many of these ultranationalist Eastern European politicians seem to be in love with with Russia, a country that has spent much of the 20th century victimising them, at the expense of ties with Western Europe who I don’t even think have ever been at war with most of the countries in Eastern Europe.
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The article is almost exclusively about Hungary. Last time I checked Eastern Europe was a bit larger than Hungary
This article is literally only about Hungary.
I really don’t like Americans weighing in on European matters.
Figures like Orbán have exactly defined themselves more in the light of modern American -style conversatives inside that sort of narrative bubble that has “liberalism” be a catchall term for the clusterfuck of contradiction that is the Democrat party, rather than in term of European political schema. No one has a problem with Hungary being a European-style conservative democracy, like Austria has historically been, and like Marki-Zay wants to make it.
But Hungary contradicts the very principles of “liberal democracy”, liberal as in obeying the principles of seperation of powers and rule of law. Stop confusing the waters by making the fight about social issues, or economic issues, when it is very clearly about the deeper apparatus of the state to give everyone, even supporters of Fidesz, a fair country.
It’s weird how many of these ultranationalist Eastern European politicians seem to be in love with with Russia, a country that has spent much of the 20th century victimising them, at the expense of ties with Western Europe who I don’t even think have ever been at war with most of the countries in Eastern Europe.