Tucker’s Orban Lovefest Is a Glimpse of a Future MAGA Wants

The Fox News star broadcasts from Budapest this week, seemingly to sell his viewers on the Hungarian strongman's depressingly familiar and deeply dangerous authoritarianism.

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