1. The USA right's love affair with Hungary is a prime example of what Orwell called "transferred nationalism" -- i.e ideologues idealizing foreign regime for qualities their homeland lacks (c.f. Shaw on USSR, Bozell II on fascist Spain)https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1528773803001749505 …
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3. CPAC in Budapest casts a new light on fascism debate. I take the point of critics of the fascist analogy that the preconditions of classical fascism (a mobilized mass party, total war militarizing generation) aren't here. But if social reality is lacking, aspiration is there
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4. For more on the American right's Hungarian Rhapsody:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/victor-orban-hungary-cpac/ …
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What’s so great is they can leave “populism” totally undefined, because to actually engage with what it might mean would lead to massive problems for a group that’s totally devoid of *actual* solutions to the problems people face.
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