Goodwin was bigging up Orban's Hungary on X/Twitter the other day. It was one of his more transparently proto-fascist tweets.
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I replied to him with quotations from two reputable sources (the authors are far less mediocre academics):
'With his [Orban's] recent move to create a parallel, partisan judiciary, overpowering the nominally independent judiciary, Hungary is no longer liberal or democratic.'
'It has become a competitive authoritarian state, which allows an increasingly embattled and harassed opposition to exist only on the political margins.'
'Orban has transformed Hungary into an illiberal democracy, using nativist campaigns against asylum seekers to marginalize his remaining political opponent Jobbik, while intensifying an antisemitic campaign against...George Soros to curtail civil society.'
'Orban has reduced parliament to a partisan rubber-stamping institution, which does little else than uncritically introduce and pass government- initiated legislation.'
'He has weakened non-majoritarian institutions, from courts to tax offices, by limiting their power and stacking them with cronies.'
'Today, with the exception of one TV station (RTL Klub), and a few websites, the Hungarian media are completely under Orban's control.'
Fidesz has won all national and European elections since 2009 by 'using an enormous amount of public financial resources, constraining public opposition parties' access to media, and manipulating electoral rules.'
Orban also espouses the baseless 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory. The demographics which support it have been comprehensively debunked, and the theory is also logically fallacious (it commits the 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' error).
If I was still teaching, I would use the tweets of characters like Murray, Grimes, Fox, Robinson (Tommy), Robinson (Calvin), Tousi, Daubney, Slater et al. to teach critical thinking skills to sixth formers, as they are often very easy to debunk.