On this edition of Your Call, we'll find out why top US conservatives are having their latest Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) conference in Budapest, which kicked off today.
This morning's keynote speaker was Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said conservatives in Europe and the US must fight together to "reconquer" institutions in Washington and Brussels from liberals who threaten Western civilization, according to Reuters.
In a speech earlier his week, Orban embraced the racist "great replacement" ideology, called the spread of LGBTQ+ rights "gender madness," and said the West is "committing suicide" through immigration. What does this say about the direction the hard-right is headed in the US?
Guests:
Sarah Posner, journalist with Type Investigations and author of Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump
Flora Garamvolgyi, journalist covering Central and Eastern Europe who writes about Hungary for The Guardian
Kathryn Joyce, investigative reporter at Salon and author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Web Resources:
Reuters: Orban tells CPAC conservatives in Europe, U.S. must align "troops" for 2024 votes
The Washington Post: The Orbanization of America: How to capture a democracy
The New Republic: The New Right’s Grim, Increasingly Popular Fantasies of an International Nationalism
The Guardian: Orbán and US right to bond at Cpac in Hungary over ‘great replacement’ ideology
The New York Times: In Hungary, Viktor Orban Remakes an Election to His Liking
Eurozine: Viktor Orbán’s war on the media
The Washington Post: The Orbanization of America: Florida shadows Hungary’s war on LGBTQ rights
The Guardian: Viktor Orbán: no tax for Hungarian women with four or more children