Friday, April 20, 2018

Pat Buchanan: Why the Authoritarian Right Is Rising - "addressing the primary and existential fear of peoples across the West—the death of the separate and unique tribes into which they were born and to which they belong."




“[Hungarians] don’t want to become a minority in their 
own country.”
A fortnight ago, Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party won enough seats in the Hungarian parliament to rewrite his country’s constitution.
To progressives across the West, this was disturbing news.
For the bete noire of Orban’s campaign was uber-globalist George Soros. And Orban’s commitments were to halt any further surrenders of Hungarian sovereignty and independence to the European Union, and to fight any immigrant invasion of Hungary from Africa or the Islamic world.
Why are autocrats like Orban rising and liberal democrats failing in Europe? The autocrats are addressing the primary and existential fear of peoples across the West—the death of the separate and unique tribes into which they were born and to which they belong. ...