In an address Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas Texas, the prime minister took on a range of both political and cultural issues from globalism and illegal immigration to marriage and gender ideology.
Orbán, who was reelected in April on a platform of what he called a “brand of Christian democratic, conservative, patriotic politics,” told CPAC attendees he sees some parallels between Hungary and Texas’ reputation for respecting independence and freedom.
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“If this is true — and it must be true, as I look around — then we have something in common, even if Hungary is over 5,000 miles from Dallas,” he announced. “My country, Hungary, is the Lone Star State of Europe.”
After denouncement over a recent address in which he slammed what he called an “ideological move” by the “internationalist Left” to claim that Europe is inherently “populated by peoples of mixed race,” Orbán pushed back against allegations of racism over his statement about not wanting to become "mixed race," stating, “a Christian politician cannot be racist.”
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“I can already see tomorrow’s headlines: ‘Far-right European racist and anti-Semite strongman, the Trojan horse of Putin, holds speech at conservative conference,’” he announced. "But I don’t want to give them any ideas. They know best how to write fake news.”
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Orbán called on American conservatives to fight against regimes that are opposed to what he called the West’s Judeo-Christian heritage.
“The horrors of Nazism and communism happened because some Western States in continental Europe abandoned their Christian values. And today’s progressives are planning to do the same. They want to give up on Western values, and create a New World, a Post-Western World,” he stated.
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The 59-year-old prime minister pointed to the Obama administration as an instance, stating that under former President Barack Obama, the U.S. pressured Hungary to “delete Christian and national values from it.”
Both Obama and former President George W. Bush refused to take meetings with Orbán. The Obama administration also denied visas for Hungarian officials who had supposedly been suspected of corruption in 2014.
By comparison, Orbán enjoyed close ties with the U.S. under former President Donald Trump and got praise from social conservatives worldwide and like-minded governments as conservative parties grew to power in the U.S. (2017) and Brazil (2018).
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In his CPAC address, Orbán took shots at a range of political figures, including Obama, billionaire George Soros, and the Democratic Party.
“They hate me and slander me and my country as they hate you and slander you and the America you stand for. We all know how this works,” he announced.
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He further cautioned of the consequences of a world increasingly being transformed by modernization across “the Chinese, the Indian, let’s say the orthodox world, and even Islam,” adding that “rival civilizations have adopted Western technology and have mastered the Western financial system, but they have not adopted Western values — and they have absolutely no intention of adopting them.”
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Orbán alluded to those values — including at one point a verbatim citation of Hungary’s constitutional definition of marriage between a man and a woman — and touted Hungary's strong policies against illegal migration and "gender ideology".
"Less drag queens and more Chuck Norris," he stated.
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