Controversial Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán to appear at CPAC in Dallas

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published 11 July 2022

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will travel to Dallas in early August to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), The Daily Caller reported Monday.

This will be Orbán's second CPAC appearance. The national conservative PM previously spoke at a conference CPAC held in Budapest in May. At the time, Orbán had just won a fourth term as prime minister, soundly defeating a six-party coalition that aimed to unseat him.

Right-wingers like Rod Dreher and Tucker Carlson have held up Orbán's Hungary as a nationalist, socially conservative, pugilistic, pro-family, anti-woke dream of what the Republican Party could become. For American liberals, it's more like a nightmare. Jonathan Chait warned in Intelligencer that if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) becomes president, he is "likely to methodically strangle democracy through a series of illiberal Orbanist steps."

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Grayson Quay was the weekend editor at TheWeek.com. His writing has also been published in National Review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Modern Age, The American Conservative, The Spectator World, and other outlets. Grayson earned his M.A. from Georgetown University in 2019.