Further excerpt -- The hard-right core that wants culture war mixed in with their insurrection is a big part of the MAGA power train. They are hostile to the idea of a pluralistic America. They are yearning for an American politician who will run for president on the illiberal platform of domination and control of the “pure” population against the lesser people, who are societal drags and burdens. These people are always racial or religious minorities. The threat is always the same. It is the idea that all people will have equal standing under the law and an equal voice. Hitler rejected this as a pathway to slavery. The idea that a master race would be subjugated through equality with lesser people was at the foundation of Nazi ideology and Hitlerism.
National conservatism” and “Orbanism” are one and the same. It is a political philosophy built on a conviction about civilization. It is forged on a foundation of unshakeable belief and a sense of urgency about time’s finite nature and the fear of ever-looming collapse. The collapse is ever-present because of the geographic position of Orbanism and national conservatism.
They are both grounded in “encirclement” theory. Both movements are reliant on doctrine that portrays them as surrounded, embattled and facing constant extinction at the hands of an uncivilized horde that is encroaching from all sides. Paranoia, conspiracy and danger constantly loom. They breed delusions of treachery and a vast garden of lies to maintain the fictions, explain the contradictions, and make plausible the madness.
Orbanism and national conservatism share a great hope. They have a mythical belief in the power of an individual to set things right. This individual is unequal against the movement, just as the movement and party are unequal against the whole of society. The movement is restricted and pure. It is not seeking to persuade. It seeks to impose and enforce because the stakes are so high. This is where democracy is rejected as being the enemy of freedom. Democracy is a system that shares power and grants an equal vote to citizens, who are equal under the law. This means that people from different cultures, races and religions have equal standing and that an idea is the organizing foundation of society.
Below is a speech that stakes the opposite claim. Read the words and then read the words from Viktor Orban below them. Understand that they are the same, and understand it was America First that celebrated the cause of both speeches.
The cause is evil and un-American. It always has been. Do you recognize it?
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