Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to the White House caused a meltdown by media outlets across the country. President Trump was supposedly assaulting the liberal democratic order by even speaking the to the democratically elected Orbán.

What is it in Orbán that makes him such a threat to the Western liberal order? He’s not violently putting down a workers movement as French President Emmanuel Macron has done to the yellow vest movement, been incapable of delivering a democratically approved Brexit like British Prime Minister Theresa May, or created failed states in the Middle East and North Africa like former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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