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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Thu Sep 17, 2015, 08:30 AM Sep 2015

Hungary's RW prime minister (the "Trump of Europe"): the refugee crisis is the end of liberalism

PM ORBÁN: IMMIGRATION SITUATION EXPOSES THE CRISIS OF “HYPOCRITIC” LIBERALISM

The Prime Minister insisted that the refugee crisis spells and end to the era of “liberal blah-blah” and pointed out that this provides a new opportunity for Christian-national thought to regain its dominance not only in Hungary but also across the whole of Europe.

As opposed to Hungary, Europe is currently controlled by liberals, who also hold most of the channels conveying and interpreting the thoughts of conservatives, which forces conservative politicians to adapt to this system controlled by people who differ from them. “This is what the European Right suffers from”, he said.

In his speech ... to a select group of right-wing artists, academics, businessmen and politicians, Mr. Orbán branded liberalism “an hypocritic area of thought organised into a system” and labelled liberal foreign policy “organised hypocrisy” in which action claimed to be correct are in fact motivated my money, oil and materials. ... Christian identity lines out a clear hierarchy of importance

Stressing the importance of a strong economy, the Prime Minister also highlighted “everyday patriotism”, a term he described as a “life instict”, and everyday routine such as buying Hungarian-made products or employing Hungarian workforce. “If we’re unable to bridge the communicational, cultural and other distances, if we’re unable to make everyday nationalism attractive for the young and not in some sort of disorganised, bad-breath and radical way, which actually causes the cold sweath to break out on me.

http://hungarytoday.hu/news/pm-orban-immigration-situation-exposes-crisis-hypocratic-liberalism-16216

This guy does sound a lot like Trump and has already built the border wall that the Donald is talking about. His desire to see the 'death of liberalism' is something he and Donald share as well.
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