MAGA lost big in Hungary -- but the battle for Europe isn't over

[struth]

So, Q-NUT..................WTF are Trump and his cult doing endorsing the Grifter?

They're the idiots claiming to the ones to MAGA.

How's he a grifter?

The US Govt often supports foreign leaders...how's that new?

 

[struth]

Did I give you the wrong answer? I'll try again.

maga - Make America Go Away

I don't recall you giving me any answer

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

How's he a grifter?

Stealing from Hungarian taxpayers to enrich himself, his family and corrupt friends.

Like your dear leader, Q-NUT.

The US Govt often supports foreign leaders...how's that new?

 

[struth]

Stealing from Hungarian taxpayers to enrich himself, his family and corrupt friends.

Like your dear leader, Q-NUT.

How did he do that? I also wouldn't call such a thing a "grift" that would be a big deal, in our country, something someone or their entire family might need blanket pardons for

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

How did he do that? I also wouldn't call such a thing a "grift" that would be a big deal, in our country, something someone or their entire family might need blanket pardons for

Your dear leader is on it.

Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office​

WSJ
https://www.wsj.com › Politics › Policy




Apr 10, 2026 — President Trump has repeatedly promised top administration officials pardons before leaving office, according to people who heard his comments.

 

[struth]

Your dear leader is on it.

Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office​

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Apr 10, 2026 — President Trump has repeatedly promised top administration officials pardons before leaving office, according to people who heard his comments.

Staff? That's not a new thing, it's a precedent started by the Xiden admin.

Speaking of the Xiden admin, remember how he had to give out mass blanket pardons to his criminal enterprise family for decades of stealing from taxpayers to enrich themselves? I do

 

[riseabovethis]

I don't recall you giving me any answer

It was maga - Make a Goulash again

As for maga being involved in the Hungarian election well almost all their news is written in Hungarian and I doubt American politics is discussed there much.

 

[struth]

It was maga - Make a Goulash again

As for maga being involved in the Hungarian election well almost all their news is written in Hungarian and I doubt American politics is discussed there much.

Yeah that didnt answer my question

So glad you responded

I agree there is nothing

 

[hadit]

Orban’s illiberal democracy in Hungary was seen as a model for the illiberalization of this country by MAGA.

Like I said, I don't know very many of them, but literally no one I knew gave a flying rat's patoot about him. Name some names, see if I know any. I'll ask them, but it might need to be in the next meeting.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Hungary has Maga? Do say.

 

[hadit]

Hungary has Maga? Do say.

Apparently, they get around a good bit. You'd think there would be a memo.

Come to think of it, though, this sounds more like something a fax machine in somebody's basement spat out in the middle of the night with marching orders.

 

[Oddball]

Hungary’s New PM Just Pledged to Arrest Netanyahu.

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[Frankeneinstein]

“It wasn’t a great week for the far right’s self-appointed crusade to reconquer Europe as a fairytale paradise of whiteness and Christianity."

The problem for the right then is that europe already exists in that capacity.

 

[Independent thinker]

Donald Trump has turned toxic and Viktor Orbán is toast. But the authoritarian threat isn't going away

“It wasn’t a great week for the far right’s self-appointed crusade to reconquer Europe as a fairytale paradise of whiteness and Christianity. Maybe that’s because that whole idea is vaporware, rooted in a nonsensical social and historical vision and devoted to a losing battle against economic and demographic reality. But that quality of noble, doomed struggle toward impossible goals is both the far-right movement’s fundamental weakness and the source of its power and danger.
[…]
Magyar’s big win, in other words, feels rather too much like Joe Biden’s one-sided victory in the pandemic-year presidential election of 2020. It’s nearly impossible to remember now how much that felt, for millions of Americans — and many more millions around the world — like a moment of redemption and release, and like the sure and certain end of the Trumpian nightmare. As drastically different as Hungary and the United States are, the central quandary remains the same: Pulling together a pro-democracy coalition to bring down a reactionary regime is one thing; managing democratic governance in a way that disempowers or defeats the deeply entrenched reactionary forces within Western society is quite another.”

MAGA lost big in Hungary — but the battle for Europe isn't over - Salon.com

Donald Trump has turned toxic and Viktor Orbán is toast. But the authoritarian threat isn't going away

www.salon.com

The battle for the United States is long from over, as well.

As in 2021, ridding America of the Trump malignancy in 2029 won’t be the end of the authoritarian right.

Indeed, a future Republican president is at liberty to be as much of an authoritarian despot as Trump given the right’s blind support for the Imperial Presidency and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority codifying unitary executive dogma.

If I remember my geography from school correctly, I don't think Hungary is in the US.