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What Next - Lessons From Hungary

What Next - Lessons From Hungary

So your right-wing authoritarian populist just got back into office? They’ve been there.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

February 10, 202522m 37s

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Show Notes

Donald Trump has a lot of similarities—and something of a bromance—with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. And those who wish to resist Trump’s Orbán-like, right-wing strongman tendencies could learn something from the resistance in Hungary. 


Guest: Gábor Scheiring, former member of the Hungarian parliament and assistant professor of comparative politics at Georgetown University Qatar.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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