David French

And so Malani and Italy.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

You look at it and you say, Orban had this almost spiritual hold on parts of illiberal MAGA and the illiberal or post-liberal right.

Americans had moved to Hungary.

Hungary was paying American right-wing intellectuals through various institutions, etc.

It was really seeding.

Orban had had

you know, had been fetid in the United States, really sort of seeing him as kind of an intellectual and moral godfather of the whole movement.

And if he loses, much less decisively,

then it really is a signal that maybe, maybe, who knows?

I mean, things are very contingent, Tim.

A lot of things can happen.

That maybe this entire MAGA thing, this entire post-liberal movement, was an aberrational historical blip and not an emerging historical trend.

Your lips to God's ears.

Yeah.

We'll see.

We'll see.

I mean, look.

The way in which the DOJ has been weaponized from day one, and it's just almost hilarious to look back at all of the Republican claims of weaponization of the DOJ when Donald Trump tried to overthrow an election.