Hungary's leader has been in power since two thousand and eight. He saw the coming tide a's going to be what's called popularism nowand what'snow nationalism, ultra nationalism. The use of christian nrhetoric. Head never used an catholic rhetoric before. E had never gone down that road. Orbon was elected prime minister again in two thousand and ten. And though orban denies it, jewish groups see another appeal to history in the vilification of soros. It is really the clice that a that jews are secretly working to undermine a the european white and Christian race.
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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