Viktor Orban, CPAC, The Republican Party and The Rapacious White Supremacist Spirit of The Conservative Right!

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis
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5 min readAug 9, 2022

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Last week, Viktor Orbán, the fascist, right-wing Hungarian dictator, delivered a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas that touted off the predictable racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and xenophobic laundry list of grievances that are his stock and trade.

“I can already see tomorrow’s headlines,” Orbán said “‘Far-right European racist, and anti-Semite strongman — the Trojan horse of Putin — holds speech at conservative conference.”

Truth be told, it wasn’t much of a surprise that Orbán would trek down such a dark, sordid path, given the fact the Hitler-praising autocrat has routinely trafficked in such abominable dogma. In fact, a recent diatribe late last month prompted one of his advisors to resign.

Zsuzsa Hegedus, who is Jewish and served as an adviser to Orbán for more than 20 years, abruptly quit after citing what she referred to as his “illiberal turn.” She denounced the abhorrent comments he made in Romania as a “pure Nazi text worthy of (Nazi propagandist Joseph) Goebbels,” according to her…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
The Polis

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.