He oversees a country about the size of Indiana, with less than 10 million people, a GDP approximating Kansas’s, no navy or nuclear weapons, and a relatively weak military overall. Yet Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán is not only considered a pariah by Western leaders, but is treated as if he poses a unique geopolitical threat. In fact, these leaders want him ousted from power so badly that they’re supporting a coalition of communists and anti-Semites running against him in Hungary’s next election.
None of this is a mystery to Orbán, however. And in a Tucker Carlson Tonight interview, part of which aired Thursday evening, the prime minister explained the condemnation:
He and his nation, with their patriotic, Hungary-first policies and opposition to culture-rending immigration, serve as a refutation of now-dominant Western globalism. Hungary throws a monkey wrench into the internationalist plan and puts its authors to shame — and they hate him for it.
Introducing the Orbán interview, host Tucker Carlson said that of “the nearly 200 different counties on the face of the earth, precisely one of them has an elected leader who publicly identifies as a western-style conservative.” He later stated, referencing Western leaders:
By rejecting the tenets of neoliberalism, Viktor Orbán has personally offended them and enraged them. What does Orbán believe? Just a few years ago, his views would have seemed moderate and conventional. He thinks families are more important than banks. He believes countries need borders. For saying these things out loud, Orbán has been vilified. Left-wing NGO’s have denounced him as a fascist, a destroyer of democracy.
In fact, last autumn Joe Biden characterized the Hungarian as a “totalitarian” dictator and a “thug,” names he wouldn’t call someone they actually describe: Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The difference is that China is a powerful, clout-wielding nation that ensures American deference with threats and de facto bribes (the Bidens have gorged themselves at this trough). So our politicians kowtow to Beijing, even though it’s a regime that persecutes and murders its own citizens. China also tacitly encourages the West’s globalist, immigrationist, and multiculturalist schemes, knowing they amount to a form of slow suicide.
Hungary offers neither wealth nor support for leftism, however, and is relatively powerless, so it’s fair game. This behavior, abusing the weaker, has a name: bullying.
Yet even “if you understand that the American media lie, it’s always bewildering to see the extent of their dishonesty,” Carlson also stated, elaborating on the anti-Orbán agitation. “Nothing prepares you for it. We’ve read many times how repressive Hungary is.”
“Freedom House, an NGO in Washington funded almost exclusively by the U.S. government, describes the country as less free than South Africa, with fewer civil liberties,” Carlson continued. “That’s not just wrong. It’s insane.”
But aside from Hungary’s refusal to participate in the European Union’s suicidal absorption of waves of unassimilable, mainly Muslim migrants, Orbán has also rejected another Western sacred-cow obsession. Commentator Andrea Widburg explains:
Orbán has also presided over Hungary’s passing a set of laws that, while they would have been normative three or four decades ago, are now decried as gross violations of LGBTQ+ human rights.
Hungary did not mandate prison for people identifying as LGBT+, as the Soviet Union did, or condemn them to death, as Che Guevara did and the Muslims still do. Instead, in 2020, Hungary came down on the side of biology and reality by refusing to recognize people’s claims that they were members of the opposite sex (although the opposite sex is now just one of the 112 different “genders” our government and businesses recognize).
In addition, Orbán’s government is trying to enact a law that censors LGBT+ positive content in movies, books, television, and advertisements. It would also prevent schools from teaching materials that encourage children to enter the LGBT+ spectrum. For those American parents struggling against the relentless pressure in schools, books, TV, and movies to get children to embrace some form of LGBT+ identity when they’re as young as three, that sounds rather refreshing.
But not to Western leaders, who hiss about the “censorship” as they, via their Big Tech proxies, relentlessly censor substantive dissent — the very Truth itself.
Moreover, it’s not in “totalitarian” Hungary that dissenters in big cities may need armed bodyguards, nor is it in “totalitarian” Hungary that people get “canceled” for opposing establishment orthodoxy. “Totalitarian” Hungary also isn’t imprisoning people interminably for a trespassing incident (January 6). It’s in the United States that this happens.
In fact, these things are “unknown” in Hungary, states Carlson. “Opposition figures here don’t worry they’ll be hurt for their opinions. Neither, by the way, does the prime minister. Orbán regularly drives by himself with no security.”
“So who’s freer?” the commentator asks.
Orbán came off well in the interview, appearing honest, down-to-earth, and principled. He was diplomatic and even mentioned that he had to be, but still spoke Truth.
Addressing his nation’s restriction of immigration, Orbán said that the right to do so is “coming from God … [from] nature, so all arguments [are] with us. Because this is our country. This is our population, this is our history, this is our language.”
The prime minister also critiqued the immigrationist mindset as he explained why he was the “black sheep” of Europe, stating that many
European countries decided to open a new chapter of their own history of the nation. They call it a “new society,” which is a post-Christian, post-national society. They believe firmly that if different communities, even huge number of, let’s say, Muslim communities, and the original inhabitants, let’s say, Christian communities, are mixed up, the outcome of this will be good…. I think it’s very risky, and the chance that it will be not good, but it will be very bad, is obvious. And each nation has the right to take this risk or to reject this risk. We, Hungarians, decided not to take that risk to mix up our society. That’s the reason why they attack Hungary so harsh[ly], and that’s the reason why my personal reputation is very bad.
The Thursday interview segment is below, and it really is worth watching in its entirety.
The bottom line, stated Orbán, is that “Western liberals cannot accept that inside the Western civilization, there is a conservative [and] national alternative which is more successful in everyday life than the liberal ones.”
Orbán also said that he knew the Left would be working hard to manipulate next April’s Hungarian election and oust him from power — and he stated that “we are prepared for that.”
They’d better be, because the globalist Left wants nothing more than to turn Hungary into another failing, open-borders, sexual devolutionary, multi-cult state. Misery, after all, loves company.
