On a Republican Role Model

American social conservatives absolutely love Viktor Orban. They view Budapest as the new Jerusalem. Why wouldn’t they? He agrees with them on the virtues of illiberal democracy (he invented the term, after all), and he is on the front lines of the war on wokeness.

The difficulty here is that, while Orban may be on the right side of the wokeness wars, he is also relatively friendly with China, which is typically viewed as an existential threat by his right-wing allies. Whoops! That’s a bit embarrassing, no?