1. The cult of Orban on the right has many sources, one strand of which is religion. Long before Carlson's pilgrimage to Budapest, white evangelicals were hailing Orban as a savior who figured out how to overcome the dreaded "demographic winter" of white decline.
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3. Orban has shrewdly courted white evangelicals, seeing them as a bridge to GOP and thus American foreign policy. In 2017, Orbán hosted in Budapest a meeting of the World Congress of Families, an important religious right group.
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4. The policy strands behind this (anti-LGBTQ, anti-reproductive freedom, pro-natalist, anti-immigrant) are all designed to strengthen the dominance of white family. For more on this I talked to
@sarahposner who has covered story for years.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-hidden-history-of-religious?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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I just don't understand what they think is so great about white people anyway
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