Trumpist Interference in the Hungarian Parliamentary Elections for the Far-Right Ruling Party versus the Center-Right Opposition

Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and other far-right Trumpists have endorsed the far-right, anti-migrant, autocratic, pro-Russian Hungarian ruling party in Hungary’s parliamentary elections in April versus the center-right TISZA opposition party led by Peter Magyar. Magyar is a European Parliament Member who resigned from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Government because of its corruption. Hungary is a member of the European Union, where it was driven from the center-right European People’s Party because of its failure to live up to its conservative principles, and is also a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Yet its pro-Russian policy, and even allegations of spying on behalf of the Kremlin, have undermined those organizations' effectiveness in response to Russian aggression. The former Soviet satellite of Hungary, which had prospered after the fall of Communism, has become the poorest member of the EU under the corrupt autocracy and anti-migrant policies of Orban. Given the willingness of Trump and his allies to interfere in the Hungarian elections to back the Kremlin’s man in Budapest, we principled conservatives should publicly advocate for support for TISZA and Magyar.