Maddow: Trump's fear is palpable as authoritarian peer Orbán is resoundingly rejected in Hungary
4/14/202644 min
Rachel Maddow highlights some striking parallels between Donald Trump and the authoritarian regime his administration is modeled on, Victor Orbán in Hungary. Maddow notes that the basis for an authoritarian's power is the sense that their continued rule is inevitable, so seeing Orbán tossed from power so handily by the voters of Hungary sends a clear and upsetting message to Trump, and an encouraging message to Trump's opponents.
David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, joins to discuss how Hungary will "unwind" the legacy of corruption and authoritarianism left behind by Victor Orbán and restore democracy.
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Super happy to have you here. So imagine, um, you are a, a small country. You're very proud, very important country, but you are little, and you are not very rich. And you decide in your little cou- in, in your little country, um, that it is time to put in streetlights, right? You think, "We may not be a wealthy country, but gosh darn it, it is the twenty-first century, and in a bunch of our little towns and villages that want them, uh, we're gonna put in streetlights, or we're gonna upgrade streetlights in places that need them to be fixed up. Uh, we're gonna get funding, we'll get grants for streetlights, and we're gonna do that all over the place in our country." Now, if you are a town that wants in on this project, if you, you want some streetlights for your town, what your government tells you is, "Okay, here's how you're gonna do it. Your town, your village, if you want streetlights, what you have to do is you have to hire this particular company.