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midwest | Trump doesn't give a whoop about trade.
What he does give a whoop about is following Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban's playbook: The 15-year process Orban has taken to dismantle Hungary's democracy. Orban began by weakening Hungary's courts, filling them with loyalists. He then applied pressure on media companies, either turning them into state propaganda or putting them out of business. Then Orban took control over universities, appointing leaders loyal to him. State universities were privatized in a very particular way, placed under the direction of boards that were packed with individuals close to Orban's Fidesz party. They have been promised to be put on a financially more viable footing in exchange for accepting basically control or surveillance by a combination of individuals and forces close to the government.
Sound familiar????
In public speeches, Trump has called Orban "fantastic," "respected" and said "nobody is a better leader" than the Hungarian prime minister. Hungary serves as more of a conservative fantasyland that MAGA Republicans can aspire to. So: Hungary as the country where you don't have immigrants, where you don't have woke issues, where gender ideology is not that dominant.
Sound familiar???
Trump wants power. And if his trade fiasco brings the American people and its institutions to its knees financially, all the easier.
Someone(s) better wake up fairly soon. | |
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Vietnam Cleverly Outsmarts trumps trade war
