Why Tucker Carlson's Budapest adventure is cause for concern

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Zeeshan Aleem
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I wrote about why I think "Tucker Carlson does Budapest" week is spooky: he's inviting arguably the largest audience in cable news to contemplate Hungary's nationalist-authoritarian model as a north star.

Opinion | Why Tucker Carlson’s Budapest adventure is cause for concern
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s right-wing leader, has a fan in Carlson.
msnbc.com
7:20 AM · Aug 4, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/why-tucker-carlson-s-trip-budapest-bad-news-america-n1275881


Fox News host Tucker Carlson is doing something rather unusual this week: He’s broadcasting his show from Hungary’s capital, Budapest. He’s also doing some high-profile cultural immersion while he’s there, having already met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday. On Saturday, he’s slated to attend a far-right conference and deliver a speech titled “The World According to Tucker Carlson.”

If you’re not familiar with the scene in Budapest these days, this might all seem kind of random. But unfortunately it’s just the opposite.

Orbán is an energetic right-wing authoritarian who has in recent years become a darling of right-wing populist movements growing across the West. And he has strived to cultivate Budapest’s emerging role as an intellectual and cultural center of right-wing nationalism in Europe. Carlson, one of the most popular hosts on American cable news, is very conspicuously strengthening ties with others in that scene during his visit — and inviting his millions of viewers to learn about it and admire it, as well. Carlson’s agenda seems quite clear: to encourage his followers to consider Hungary’s disturbing political model as a possible future for the U.S.

Experts who follow extremist behavior on the right tell me they’re concerned. Hannah Gais, a researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center who studies right-wing extremism, said in an email that Carlson’s broadcasting in Hungary is particularly alarming given the tremendous platform he commands at Fox News.

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[empedocles]

1. A dream, promoted already, of Bannon and trump, - and rw/authoritarian dark monies

[mahina]

2. "Sock puppet Tucker McFascist's masters swoon for authoritarian"

He has no ideas of his own, no moral compas, devoid of a sense of basic rights and wrong, certainly no sense at all of the guiding principles of the United States. He is a toady and a mouthpiece fir fascists.



It would be much easier if I were a dictator” -shrub

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3. Tucker is a neo-Nazi and one of the most dangeorus people in the country right now

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4. Well they are descendants of the Hun so ...