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"Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?” Trump Embraces Authoritarian Playbook of Hungary’s Orbán By Donna February 12, 2025 2:52 pm Category: President (0.0 from 0 votes) Rules of the Post Write A New Article How To Post Here

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Is Trump embracing the authoritarian playbook of far-right Hungarian dictator Viktor Orbán? Princeton professor Kim Lane Scheppele walks us through Orbán’s sudden rise to power and how the Trump administration’s recent actions appear to follow his anti-democratic “blueprint,” with Trump “echoing a lot of Orbán’s rhetoric,” consolidating power in the executive branch and bypassing federal checks and balances.

"Trump is trying to break things quickly,” says Scheppele, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. She also notes Orbán’s involvement in the right-wing Project 2025 initiative and his adoption of the motto “Make Europe Great Again” during Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the European Union last year as further evidence of the close ties between the two leaders.

As Orbán works to “consolidate this movement of anti-democratic far-right forces” in Europe, warns Scheppele, Trump is tightening his grasp on the other side of the Atlantic.

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by Curt_Anderson on February 12, 2025 3:09 pm Some of us are sleepwalking into autocracy. Some are awake, aware and alarmed. Some are aware and eager to have an autocracy. Too many are oblivious or in denial. Yes, it can happen here. by Donna on February 12, 2025 3:28 pm I was born in 1956, just 11 years after the defeat of the Nazis. Because WW2 was fairly recent when I was a youth, there was a lot of programming on TV about the rise of Hitler. Since those days, I've been puzzled as to why the German people allowed a psychopath like Afolf Hitler to rise to power. I got my answer in 2015. On September 6 of that year, I predicted here on SelectSmart that Trump would be nominated by the Republican Party. To my knowledge, that was before anyone else did. Right now, Trump is completing what he started in 2015 and picking up from where he left off on January 6, 2021 when he tried to pull a coup. IMO it's going to be so difficult to stop him that EVERYTHING must be on the table. by Indy! on February 12, 2025 4:04 pm Leon Muskkk is already using the “Make Europe Great Again” slogan too. 😳 by HatetheSwamp on February 12, 2025 4:06 pm Donna, Ultimately, the Supreme Court is going to settle this but you Dems and libs have created a huuuuuuuuuge bureaucracy which, essentially, runs the country. The bureaucracy is a part of the Executive Branch which executes the laws Congress passes. The President is the chief executive in the federal government. GOP Presidents have always allowed the bureaucracy to run itself. Trump's not doing that. po claims that it's unconstitutional for the head of the Executive Branch to manage the Executive Branch. That doesn't make sense to ole pb. But, before long, we'll see. If it turns out that the head of the Executive Branch is permitted by the courts to manage the Executive Branch, you Big Government progressives and Dems will have yourselves to blame. Go To Top

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