Ian Bremmer

Orban supporting the Chinese, supporting the Russians, wildly kleptocratic, deeply anti-democratic, the swamp incarnate, but

liked Trump and came to CPAC and said all the right things and flattered him.

And ultimately, what matters, what MAGA is, unfortunately, is what Trump says it is and what appeals to him before it helps the country.

And that's the part that's going to lead him to lose the midterms in such a spectacular way.

And it really plays out most clearly in Hungary, most clearly in Hungary.

And it's why Georgia Maloney, who was the only European leader that came to be there with Trump for his second inauguration, has now broken decisively from Trump on the Iran war and on other issues.

It's why he's losing support from the far right in France,

and Le Pen and Bardella and others.

I mean, it's kind of extraordinary that the populist right in Europe would not be pro-Trump and pro-MAGA.

And it's because Trump and MAGA are no longer reflecting the populist right.

They're starting wars.

They're expanding the swamp.

They're not doing precisely what the people that voted for them really wanted them to do.

Xi Jinping should, in the near term, he's taking it pretty hard.

from this war.

His economy is, I mean, they say it's 5% growth.

In reality, economic experts believe it's more like two to three.

There's high unemployment, particularly among the youth.

There's enormous amounts of bad corporate debt.

And the Chinese response has been very cautious and incremental.