How our elites have sold out Americans

nor can you easily build democracy amongst a primitive tribal people

The line I’ve been hearing from “ordinary people” — cabbies, baristas, the cleaning ladies, et al. — is that they are weary of corruption within the ruling party, Fidesz, but they prefer it without question to the Hungarian left, which they believe will open the door to the moral sickness of gender ideology, and destroy Hungary’s ability to govern its own sovereignty, including (indeed, especially) in matters related to gender ideology. One academic I talked to the other day, a man who spent most of his career teaching in US and Western European universities, told me that he welcomes Fudan University from China coming here, because he has confidence that the Chinese will not put up with the ideological diseases destroying Western academic life. And, he said, the Chinese will let Hungary be Hungary.

Is he wrong? Maybe. But that is what I’m hearing over and over and over here. Obviously there is a serious opposition to the Fidesz government — again, I’m going to post later today on my interview with a prominent anti-Orban figure — but as an American, it has been startling to me to find so many people here who affirm their government’s turn away from the West, and towards China and Russia. Let me emphasize that I am not talking about government officials or those who are part of the Fidesz party apparatus. I talked the other day to a young woman who told me she is a student, who said that she supports the Orban government because it matters a lot to her to keep immigrants out, and to make sure transgender ideology doesn’t take hold here. It would be a mistake to say that this is a Christian thing. Unlike Poland, Hungary is not very religious. This young woman told me that she lives with her partner, and ultimately wants to marry and start a family. She sees the moral breakdown in the West over gender as a direct threat to the family she wants to start.

The basic human right to buy and sell crocheted fake penises and scrotums for your little girl “bitty-bug” to put in her pants to pretend to be a boy. This is what our culture has to offer to the Hungarians, and to the world. My interlocutor on Friday said that he’s convinced Hungarian PM Viktor Orban believes the West is finished, and the future belongs to societies like China’s. As an American, I hope that is not true. But the evidence is not encouraging.

I know it is a rhetorical question, but isn't it amazing how suddenly the issues that were so important that they be disclosed by insiders have vanished. Suddenly, FBI, DIA, CIA,NSA are staffed by dedicated professionals with only the countries safety in mind. Go-figure.

The problem, I told him, is that once in power, and once they have momentum behind them, the sex-and-gender Left gives you absolutely no possibility of dissent, no chance to say, “Here and not beyond,” no possibility of peaceful co-existence. We know this now in the US. And Hungary will find this out if it gives any quarter to this ideology.