Why would Trump look to remake the US with its 335 million people in the image of a tiny European country with 10 million people? Hungary has a homogeneous population, is landlocked, doesn’t run a global empire, doesn’t have rogue agencies running things from the shadows, doesn’t have the global reserve currency, on and on we can go with this. The idea makes no sense at all.

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While the countries are quite different, the political projects of Orban and Trump have lots of parallels. Their two parties have had many connections and talk often about their common cause. Like or dislike Trump, if you want to know with this new consolidated power, look to Hungary. Orban was able to transform his country and consolidate power, in ways Trump admires.
If we remove all the "scare words", Orban's playbook is strikingly similar to Obama, Biden and Kamala's. He just serves different masters. I don't think Trump has the organisation or attention span to launch a similar effort in America. Democracy makes gains when elites are divided and distracted. I'm optimistic, but we, globally, need to make it happen.