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Orban Wants No Mixed-Race Europeans. Will He Say That In Texas Too?
If the American Conservative Union wants to make a hero out of Hungary’s strongman, it should at least be honest about what he represents.
Are they ready for this in Texas?
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“I don’t know how you didn’t notice that [the] speech you delivered is a purely Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels.” You know it’s going to be an interesting resignation letter when you get to lines such as these. That speech, the letter went on, clearly aimed at “the most vile racists.”
The author of this resignation screed is Zsuzsanna Hegedus, a long-time aide to the addressee, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. What had Orban said that she found shocking enough to quit after supporting him so devotedly?