Hungarian conservatism, european conservatism is very different. It's been turned toward supporting traditional families and really supportinga their own conservative voter base. And i think that that is causing a lot of american conservatives to come over and see what's going on. There's another type of American conservative that's a little freaked out by the idea of the republican party kind of lining up behind the idea of a social welfare state.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, which is like Republican Coachella, is usually held stateside, but this week it's throwing a party in Budapest, Hungary. Noel King got kicked out.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan with Haleema Shah, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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