2. As I've suggested before, it's an example of what Orwell called "transferred nationalism": ideologues dissatisfied with home country looking for ideal society abroad. Something that goes back to Enlightenment (Voltaire) & includes left (Shaw & Webbs fawning over Stalin)
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3. The "transferred nationalism" of the right is under-studied but it's real: there were fellow-travellers of fascism in 1930s and National Review types in 1960s/1970s who glamorized Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Smith's Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa
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4. National Review used to regularly run tourist ads for fascist Spain, authoritarian Greece, racist South Africa etc. Suggesting there was a market for authoritarian tourism.
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5. But more recently there's a bunch of factors that have made autocratic central & East European countries very attractive spots for "transferred nationalism": white solidarity, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ, anti-"globalist" (and all that implies).
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6. Some thoughts here on what is driving the new romance of American conservatism with autocratic foreign regimes:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/authoritarian-tourism?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Deep down, we know.
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fascisting it up
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Orban almost certainly executed the photographer, who angled the camera to look like Tucker was towering over him.
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this is not how Hungary works my dude (yet, fortunately)
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