It’s just three days into this new and hopefully better year of two thousand and twenty two, and already some of us are back on the very same bullshit that made the past few spins around the sun such an unmitigated bummer. For some, that means stuff like continuing to eat rot-gut garbage, or never seeing the inside of a gym. For others — and I’m talking about a certain ex-president of the United States of America here — it means going out of your way to remind everyone how much you just loooooove authoritarian dictators who’ve succeeded in doing what you tried and (at least to date) failed to accomplish: rolling back the tide of democracy in their home country.
With months to go before Hungary’s upcoming national elections, former President Donald Trump on Monday issued a striking endorsement of that country’s dictatorial leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Trump praised Orbán’s draconian anti-immigration policies and called him a “strong leader” who is “respected by all.”
