SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
10/25/2021
tags: right wing, conservatism, Hungary, authoritarianism, Viktor Orban, Tucker Carlson, podcasts
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10/25/2021
John Ganz and Lauren Stokes on the American Right's Hungary Hearts
Historians in the Newstags: right wing, conservatism, Hungary, authoritarianism, Viktor Orban, Tucker Carlson, podcasts
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz to unpack the American Right's ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán's Hungary, from Rod Dreher's springtime junket there to Tucker Carlson broadcasting from the country to the adoring attention it receives from an assortment of "postliberal" intellectuals What gives? Your hosts and their esteemed guests break it down, including: what the American Right gets from Orbán, and what he gets from them; the 20th century history of Hungary that provides the backdrop to its current politics; the long history of U.S. conservatives of admiring authoritarians abroad; John's visit to a Nazi bookshop in Budapest; and more!
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