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On Thursday during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas the US conservatives cheered Hungarian PM Viktor Orban. Orban is a die-hard supporter of Putin and is seen as the black sheep of NATO and the EU because he is always opposing sanctions on Russia. Generally seen as autocrat who has banned the teaching LGBTQ topics in schools and criticised creating peoples of ”mixed-race”.
But among the US conservatives he is seen as a role model and a freedom fighter, fighting for the future of Western civilisation. Just like Donald Trump's, Orban is their hero regardless of their perceived political and social excesses.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/5/us-republicans-cheer-hungarian-pm-viktor-orban-at-conference
Interesting, the conservatives tend to like the one guy that is the closest to a RF infiltrate in the EU, that got its country frequently sanctioned for lack of respect to some basic rights and for going well away from democratic principles. It may be the effect of the Trump sequestration of the US Republican party for his own means that brings this type of "leader" to be a role model.