Tonucker Carlson has nothing to see. A small junior manager whose face has been promoted frowns, and you might walk past him on the street, barely seeing him. You should pay attention only when he describes “how the elite opposes their own people”. Carlson is the reliable voice of the dominant right-wing force, and it will destroy democracy in the name of “the people.”
Last week, Carlson’s Fox News aired an admirable show Hungary by Viktor Orbán, Despite all the signs that Orbán will become the first right-wing dictatorship in Europe since the fall of Franco’s Spain in 1975. Fox News attracted the audience. Orban built his own power by creating such a dangerous paranoid fear of the enemy. Any strategy is reasonable to defeat it. Usually, it is the globalized liberal elites who oppose their own people by allowing large-scale immigration. Orban accused the Jewish financier George Soros of conspiring to flood Christian Hungary with Muslims, thereby adding fascism to the great alternative conspiracy theory.If it’s not an immigrant, it’s the gay man he implied Pedophile, If it’s not gay, it’s European Union. The name of the enemy is accidental. The point of modern far-right politics is that there is always an enemy.
For a long time, people who should have been clearer viewed authoritarian regimes in their own judgments, and described Hungary, Turkey, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia until it became too embarrassing as “non-liberal democracies.” . I can understand why this idea is attractive in theory. According to extremely progressive standards, all democracies, including us, follow unfree policies with regard to crime and immigration. There is no inevitable conflict between non-liberalism and democracy. On the contrary, traditional conservative policies are often what most voters want.
But non-liberal and paranoid politics can never be compatible with democracy. Paranoia turns opponents into traitors and participates in evil conspiracies against the “people”. The only way to deal with traitors is to suppress them. If suppression leads to the destruction of democracy and the perpetuation of the power of the ruling elite, then this is the price the elite is willing to pay for others.
Like unforgivably overrated Roger Scruton, Trump’s mentor Steve Bannon, The part-time free speech defender Jordan Peterson, Until recently the nominally anti-dictatorship leader in Europe Christian Democratic Party, Carlson felt very comfortable with his hypocrisy. The rights he represents say that when liberals threaten freedom of speech, they believe in freedom of speech. However, in Hungary, Freedom of the press is in the agony of deathSupporters of the regime control the state and most private television stations and newspapers, while others must worry that the government-appointed media committee may impose huge fines on “immoral” reporting. The conservatives who cheered for Orban opposed the cancellation culture, but only appeared when their opponents cancelled.
The rightists say it believes in a free society, but in Hungary, higher education is controlled by the state, so “liberals” cannot pollute the minds of young people. It said it was on the side of the people.In Hungary, however, corruption has gone from Orban’s promotion of childhood friends to Billionaire Daily bribes that ordinary Hungarians must pay to accept health care. The election is Disorganized Judges and state bureaucrats choose because of their loyalty rather than their ability.
The next election in 2022 will be worth watching. If the opposition somehow succeeds in defeating a rigged system, many people will ask whether Orban will recognize power. Just like Putin and other working thieves, he must be worried that if he does this, he will go to jail.
For Michael Ignatiyev, not only Fox News, but also a large number of conservative intellectuals and politicians are willing to belittle themselves in front of Orban, just like the leftists belittle themselves in front of the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes. What he called the most important issue in current politics: Conservatives abandon constitutional principles? Ignatieff is very suitable to ask this question. He was the President of the Central European University of Budapest.When i finally Be interviewed In 2017, the Hungarian opposition believed that he could fight Orban’s attempt to deport the university. Ignatieff is a former opposition leader in Canada, not an anonymous scholar. He launched a global protest movement, hoping that it would force Orban to respect academic independence. Today, he and the Hungarians who support him are much pessimistic. The dictatorship cannot be resisted, and Orban forced the university to move to Vienna in 2019.
The Republicans in the United States have made their choice. In the next election, they will not only suppress the votes, but also appoint state election officials to declare that the opponent’s victory is fraudulent.
The British right is more difficult to define. Boris Johnson Not Orban or Trump. Outside the pages of the worst Conservative newspaper, there is no Johnson’s cult of personality. When Trump threatens Republicans, he will not scare Conservative MPs. In private, and more and more in public, they showed neither respect nor fear for him.
However, I found it too easy to portray the Orbanized picture of Britain.attempt Exclude 2.5 million voters Without franchise ID cards, real estate developers and Russian oligarchs took advantage of the rise of their connections with the Conservative Political censorship reporterThe suspension of parliament and the threat to the judiciary are signs of the decline of the system.
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