Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babi\u0161, dubbed \u2018the Czech Trump\u2019<\/p>\n
A former cold war communist dictatorship and component part of the Habsburg empire seems an unlikely source of hope for Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n One such country, Hungary, is often cited as the model for Trump\u2019s no-holds-barred authoritarian assault on US institutions. Viktor Orb\u00e1n, the central European country\u2019s prime minister, has been a guest at the president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate and has won Trump\u2019s praise for transforming Hungary into an \u201cilliberal state\u201d that extols \u201ctraditional\u201d values \u2013 and for projecting the kind of \u201cstrongman\u201d persona the president admires.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babi\u0161, dubbed \u2018the Czech Trump\u2019 A former cold war communist dictatorship and component part of the Habsburg empire seems an unlikely source of hope for Donald Trump\u2019s opponents. One such country, Hungary, is often cited as the model for Trump\u2019s no-holds-barred authoritarian assault … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}