Trump's love for Viktor Orbán hints at what another Trump term will look like | Jan-Werner Müller

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Given the excitement with which Trump acolytes have been promoting Orbán - and their frequent pilgrimages to Budapest as the capital of "national conservatism" - Hungary offers a preview of a second Trump term.
48% : Friday marked another step in the total subjugation of the party, as Trump installed his daughter-in-law as co-chair (creating a political family business on the side).
47% : Orbán has been Putin's ally inside the EU, trying to block sanctions and withhold support for Ukraine whenever possible.
43% : The "national conservatism" show, including its American Putin fanboys, is patently useful because it gets critics fixated on issues like same-sex marriage instead of corruption and the destruction of democracy.
37% : By 2020, Trump had already been transforming the Republican party into a kind of personality cult; that's one reason nobody stopped him on the road to January 6.
36% : Obviously, Trump does not need general guidance from Orbán; he is already endowed with authoritarian instincts.
36% : What's not hard is the question of whether Trump is eager for retribution.
25% : Whether Trump has learned from his experience of the presidency is a hard question.
25% : But here the parallel between two politicians who Trump himself declared "twins" couldn't be clearer.

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