The video sent by the former Fox News presenter, Tucker Carlson, dismissed on April 24 by the American conservative channel, summed up well the failure of the meeting of the American Trumpist right and part of the European extreme right organized Thursday 4 and Friday May 5 in Budapest under the auspices of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In the sequence, recorded before his dismissal, the Trumpists’ favorite journalist promises Hungarians that” he will be here “, “if ever he is fired”.
In the meantime, Mr. Carlson has indeed been fired. However, he did not make the trip to Hungary. His case illustrates the fact that Mr. Orban only managed to bring together second knives in the congress hall near the Danube renamed for the occasion “anti-woke zone”. Some American parliamentarians, members of the most radicalized wing of the MAGA movement (Make America Great Again, supporters of Donald Trump), the leaders of far-right Austrian or Portuguese parties, or even Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally – but not Marine Le Pen.
“Wokist ideology”
Apart from the Georgian Prime Minister, Irakli Garibachvili, who was the subject of an unprecedented challenge in his country, in March, for having proposed a law against “Foreign Agents” copied from the Russian and Hungarian models, no head of state or government has made the pilgrimage to the Hungarian capital. Not even the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in whom Mr. Orban had nevertheless placed a lot of hopes. The Hungarian Prime Minister has been reduced to boasting of the presence of his Czech allies Andrej Babis and Slovenian Janez Jansa, who have both lost power in recent months.
“Mr. President [Trump], come back! »implored the Hungarian in his opening speech, assuring that “If he were president today, there would be no war in Ukraine”. The common point of the speakers who succeeded each other on the podium was indeed to moderate or completely ignore the seriousness of the Russian threat in order to focus their attacks on “wokism” in all its conceivable incarnations such as “those people who want to tell you how to educate your children”there “LGBT propaganda”, ” Brussels “ or “the Green Deal”… “This wokist ideology reminds us of totalitarian regimes”estimated Mr. Bardella in his speech, delivered Friday at the end of the afternoon in front of a bare room, after having been received by Mr. Orban for lunch.
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