Restore America to Its Own People
4/14/202613 min
April 13, 2026
Péter Magyar won the Hungarian election in a blowout, He revealed that Viktor Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC in the US, The modern day Republican Party has followed a historical pattern, endorsing the idea that society works best if a few wealthy men run everything, When Trump was elected, wealth had concentrated among the top 1% and skewing the vote was underway to advance this ideology, Orbán’s model was irresistable to right wing leaders, Trump and Vance have followed Orbán’s model, The dramatic rejection of Orbán by Hungarian voters represents a rejection of the radical right, FDR, calling for a “new deal” offered a blueprint for rebuilding democracy.
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[outro music] April 13th, 2026. On April 12th, the day of Hungary's parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. As a major networking event and ideological trendsetter for the radical right in the United States, CPAC has been instrumental in celebrating Orbán's Hungary as the center of the effort to destroy the liberal democracy of the United States and Europe in order to replace it with what Orbán called "illiberal democracy" or "Christian democracy." His system replaced the multiculturalism at the heart of democracy with Christian culture, stopped the immigration that he believes undermines Hungarian culture, and rejected adaptable family models in favor of the Christian family model. Today, Péter Magyar, the man who will replace Orbán after winning the election in a blowout, revealed that Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC. Orbán has clearly been working for the benefit of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and just days before the election, news broke that last October, Orbán told Putin, "In any manner where I