“Before we even get to the sick stuff that happened over the weekend, let’s ponder the choice of venue,” wrote Tomasky. “To size up Viktor Orban’s Hungary and decide that it was the perfect place to hold a political conference is brain-melting. Orban has turned Hungary into one of the world’s leading anti-democratic states. We don’t need to pretend what the American far-right is aspiring to by seeking an association with this regime — they see Orban as a re-Founding Father.”
And the real problem, he argued, is that barely anyone in America is even hearing about this.
And that’s without even getting into the actual content of the CPAC gathering, which, Tomasky noted, was explicitly anti-democratic. Orban talked openly about the need for the west to rally “troops” to reclaim and reshape democratic institutions to serve the far right.
“By the time those formula-starved babies are playing Little League, they’ll be living in what’s effectively a one-party state where contraception is illegal,” wrote Tomasky. “Where gay couples have to travel to certain states to marry — if they’re allowed to marry at all. Where the local library won’t stock books on slavery. Where the rich are paying taxes at a lower rate than middle-class people, and the federal government has no money