"Gábor Scheiring, a former member of the Hungarian parliament, wrote in a new essay for Politico Magazine that Orbán “consolidated media control through centralized propaganda, market pressure and loyal billionaires.” In the US, he wrote, “liberal-minded billionaires should not sit idly by as they did in Hungary, watching the right take over the media.”
I was happy to discuss the role of economic shocks, symbolic class war, the unraveling of liberalism, and physical & mental suffering as drivers of #populism in the US and Hungary with Al Scott on his podcast, The Rational View.
“Orban and Vucic are both the kind of illiberal leaders who are positioning their countries between the rivaling geo-political blocs, hoping to avoid too strong dependence on any one of them,”
May 11, 20241 min read
GÁBOR SCHEIRING
Tracing the path of the polycrisis of liberal globalism, while mapping the responses
that foster economic and political revival.