By Ben Wedeman, CNN
As he walked up the steps to greet former President Donald Trump at Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave the impression that he was taking his host as a model.
She wore a similar dark suit, a white blouse and a simple tie, orange instead of Trump’s signature red. He gave the same thumbs as Trump as they posed for photos.
But Orban is not a populist Trump supporter: he was in place before, built a fence to keep immigrants and refugees away, and more than a decade ago brought a new letter explaining marriage as just between a man and a woguy and life as from conception, along with other measures that have been criticized as human rights violators.
He was celebrated through the Trump management and invited to the White House after abstaining from the Obama years. And now he has secured a 30-minute seat to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where the schedule states that he will tell participants “How We Fight. “
But no matter how you receive it from the CPAC crowd in Dallas, the stage in the house shows cracks.
A racist speech through Orban last week caused him to lose an adviser who had worked with him for 20 years. “That’s why we’ve fought,” Orban told the Europeans. “We are in a position to combine with each other, but we don’t need to become mixed-race peoples. “
Orban has since said he is neither racist nor anti-Semitic, but his discourse on racial purity has set off alarm bells in his capital, Budapest, where Jews were persecuted and killed in World War II.
Rabbi Robert Frolich of the city’s historic Dohany Street synagogue said Orban’s words touched too close to home for older members of his congregation.
“Most of them are Holocaust survivors,” he told CNN. “They are worried. They’ve heard it before and it didn’t end well.
Orban has consolidated his strength since he was prime minister in 2010, after holding office from 1998 to 2002. He won his fourth consecutive term in April in a landslide, but Freedom House, the U. S. -based democracy studies organization, won the U. S. -based democracy studies organization. In the U. S. , it only evaluates the country ” as partly free.
His economic policies have gained support, but with emerging inflation, that will change, according to economist Zoltan Pogatsa.
“In the longer term, yes, I think Orban is still popular, but right now, I think there are more people skeptical about him than ever before,” he said.
Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that Hungary has a declining population and forecasts that its GDP will decline by 2. 5%.
Hungary also relies heavily on Russian fuel and any disruption to the source may plunge the country into a deep recession, the International Monetary Fund said.
In Budapest’s central market, reviews vary.
David Horvath, a juice salesman, says, “To be honest, Viktor Orban is even appreciated in our own country. “
But Margaretta Krajnik, a butcher’s shop, disagrees. “Viktor Orban is doing for his people,” he said. He loves his people. “
Here, it’s a shared decision. In Dallas, the reception of American conservatives is more enthusiastic.
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