J.D. Vance finds Viktor Orbán’s ideas intriguing and wishes to subscribe to his newsletter
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Peter Thiel’s fake-Appalachian messenger boy is quite open that he wants to take Ron DeSantis’s war on higher education national:
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, rumored to be one of former President Donald Trump’s vice-presidential contenders, said Sunday that the U.S “could learn from” some decisions made by authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, including controversial policies related to dealing with dissidents at universities.
“On the university principle, the idea that taxpayers should have some influence in how their money is spent at these universities, it’s a totally reasonable thing, and I do think that he’s made some smart decisions there that we could learn from in the United States,” Vance said Sunday on “Face the Nation.”
The Ohio Republican has previously praised Orbán’s approach to state universities in Hungary, saying his way could be the model for eliminating what he views as a left-wing bias at American universities. Orbán, who is revered in some hardline conservative circles, seized control of state universities, a move that critics say has extended his government’s right-wing influence.
The years the mainstream press spent treating this fascist numbnuts as some kind of Sage of the Working Class is one of its more embarrassing episodes of the Trump years.