On Friday, journalist Casey Michel, who specializes in the study of kleptocracy, pointed out that reporters had missed an important meeting last week. Michel noted that while reporters covered Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, they paid far less attention to the visit Orbán paid to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Heritage Foundation on Friday, March 8. There, Orbán spoke privately to an audience that included the president of the organization, Kevin Roberts, and, according to a state media printout, “renowned U.S. right-wing politicians, analysts and public personalities.”
Michel noted that it was “nothing short of shocking” that Orbán declined to meet with administration officials and instead went to Washington, D.C., to meet with a right-wing think tank. With Roberts’s appointment as head of Heritage in 2021, the conservative organization swung to the position that its role is “institutionalizing Trumpism.”
Roberts has been vocal about his admiration for Orbán, tweeting in 2022 that it was an honor to meet him. At last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Orbán boasted that Hungary is […]
Although I often read the Schwartz Report, I don’t know exactly what “TCP” stands for. It’s generally good editorial practice when using an acronym or abbreviation that not everyone will be familiar with, and search engines think is an internet protocol, to expand it the first time it is used in any item.
Trump Christofascist Party (TCP). What used to be the Republican Party (GOP)
I do not think we have ever had a true Democracy here. We have NEVER had equality, and probably never will! That is the sign of a TRUE Democracy: EQUALITY!
P.S.: I do not just mean equality between people, but equality between people and our natural environment also, which is of imense importance.