In my view, it's all completely calculated and pragmatic. I don't believe he's really got an ideological bone in his body to he probably didn't believe all the liberal stuff he was talking in the eighties. He doesn't believe in anything that isn't of benefit to him. The other thing really need to know about orban is the level of corruption of the government that he has led. They have massive contracts with e companies, and all those contracts go to his friends. That's how heis corrupt the state.
The same man who helped usher in democracy in Hungary is the one who’s chipping away at it now. American conservatives want to know how Prime Minister Viktor Orban did it.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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