How does victor orbon start to consolidate power and then continue down that road? What he won in two thousand and ten was a two thirds majority in parliament, which basically allowed him to change the constitution. He created committees that appointed the judiciarys the party that appoints the judiciary. Do you think hungary still is a democracy? It's a very similar country now than it was in the last two years of communism. Only the one party state its fides. You're saying, this is about money. This is about getting rich. This is not about an actual philosophy of governments.
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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