Tucker Carlson Summers With Viktor Orban, Touted as Speaker at Budapest Fascist Gathering
Fox News host Tucker Carlson is billed as a speaker at a far-right conference in Hungary on Saturday, according to a flier for the event. The appearance will come days after the Fox host met with the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Carlson will purportedly offer his insights at MCC Feszt, an event hosted by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, which the New York Times described in June as a government-funded plan to “train a conservative future elite.
A program for MCC Feszt touts Carlson as speaking on Saturday, delivering a talk called “The World According to Tucker Carlson.”
It’s part of a larger, four-day long program that also advertises a talk from a representative of one of America’s esteemed conservative institutions of higher education: Dennis Prager of PragerU, which makes up for what it lacks in physical space, accreditation, and discernible curriculum in Facebook virality. Prager will deliver a talk on “media and free speech.”
Orbán has characterized his approach to governance as “illiberal democracy.” He has both alarmed pro-democracy activists in Europe while also offering American observers of Trump a useful analogue for democratic backsliding. Orbán’s government has used anti-Semitic imagery to demonize George Soros, a native of the country, while also pressuring universities associated with him to close. Orbán has also gone out of his way to clamp down on LGBT rights during his tenure.
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