It’s a fair comment about Dennis Leary and a classic routine – well worth a watch. I doubt there’s a connection though. Or is there?
It must be confusing for the cliched ‘salt of the Earth’ understanders, like Spiked, to see all the jubilant Hungarians in the streets waving Hungarian flags in a display of patriotism and joy that Orban has gone.
Orban and his politics brought the biggest case democratic backsliding in the EU with a stagnating economy, but Hungary was laughably treated as a beacon of hope by the populist right like Venezuela was for the populist left. Vance going over there to campaign and spread conspiracy theories about Ukrainian election rigging saw the polls shift even more against him. Making out the man who was begging to be Putin’s little mouse was the saviour of Europe, when he was a corrupt shyster willing to get into bed with tyrants and spread baseless lies to try and maintain power. All their critiques of the EU for sovereignty fall on deaf ears when they make out this Russian shill was some great leader.
On that note, it’s interesting to see how many people got Orban money. Yet, I bet there are no grand conspiracies about ‘Hungarian lobbies’ controlling politicians or journalists.
Fraser Nelson had an interesting article out this weekend detailing how Orban tried to bribe him when he was editor of The Spectator, but he refused it.
