by Chris Kiss | Apr 19, 2024 | Ursinus College
Donald Trump has been compared to a lot throughout his mediocre rise into politics. Even during the infancy of his 2016 election, Trump was being compared to dictators, tyrants, and demagogues throughout the world. Many of these comparisons may have sounded radical at...
by Matthew Beylinson | May 2, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
In 1989 the Soviet Union was reaching the end of its life; the Iron Curtain had corroded, and independence movements were sprouting up in both the Soviet Republics and its many satellite states. In, Hungary, one of the many satellite states, a massive...
by Michael McClure | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
On January 3, former U.S. president Donald Trump offered, via his Save America political action committee, an endorsement of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ahead of the 2022 parliamentary elections in Hungary, in which Orbán will be running for reelection on...
by Michael McClure | Feb 5, 2022 | University of Chicago
A few weeks ago, I received the letter pictured above from Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in my mailbox. “Dear citizen! I write to you today because Hungary has a parliamentary election next spring,” the letter reads. Aiming to mobilize the addressees—Hungarian...
by John Barrett | Apr 3, 2019 | Saint Louis University
Since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party took control of Hungary’s government in 2010, they have increasingly made strides towards limiting the prospects of democracy in the country. These moves, however, have gone relatively unchecked by their neighbors...
