CPAC's May meeting to be held in Hungary with Viktor Orban headlining as keynote speaker

[Pommer]

Hungary will again host CPAC in May 2023.

One speaker has some free time on his hands at the moment.

I'm curious about the United We Stand bit -- is that CPAC conservatives, Hungary and Russia?

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1. Nice to see Tuck land on his feet
2. Hungary of today is where some Americans would like to be, in the not too distant future.
C. It helps to know history.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Hungary will again host CPAC in May 2023.

After condemning Nazism, Paul Gosar to share stage with members of Austrian party founded by Nazis​

The Arizona Republican will attend a Conservative Political Action Conference hosted by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

 

[wing2000]

1. Nice to see Tuck land on his feet
2. Hungary of today is where some Americans would like to be, in the not too distant future.
C. It helps to know history.

...on the last point, I'm afraid our country is doomed. It won't be long before the Holocaust is forgotten...(the years preceding it already are).

"....the latest U.S. history scores from eighth graders are the lowest recorded since the assessment began back in 1994. And this year marked the first-ever drop in civics."

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1173776611/national-student-assessment-has-educators-and-legislators-worried

 

[essentialsaltes]

Hungary will again host CPAC in May 2023.

Another May, Another CPAC Hungary

American conservatives embrace Hungary’s authoritarian leader at Budapest conference​

Three Republican members of Congress spoke at the conference, and prominent GOP figures including [Steve] Bannon, Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, and Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent video messages that were played for attendees.

The visiting GOP dignitaries’ praise for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his authoritarian government showed how the small central European country has become an unlikely model for a potential Trump second term – despite [sic] what international observers have described as an alarming backsliding of democratic rights.

Over his 14 years in power, Orbán has transformed Hungary into a laboratory for conservative policies and eroded democratic rights and civil society protections, according to his critics and European Union officials.

Orbán has centralized power by dismissing judges, changing election rules to favor his party, cracking down on NGO’s and appointing loyalists to key institutions.

The prime minister has also promoted a Christian nationalist view of Hungarian society, passing laws restricting transgender rights and adoption by same-sex couples, redefining marriage in the constitution to only cover unions between a man and a woman, and banning materials related to LGBTQ issues in schools.

“Make America great again, make Europe great again!” Orbán declared in English [in the opening speech], before continuing in Hungarian: “Go Donald Trump! Go European sovereigntists! Let us saddle up, don our armor, take to the battlefield and let the electoral battle begin.”