Rod Dreher

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Interesting Times · Preparing for ‘Weimar America’ · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And he had the mandate of the people.

The Hungarians are not the same as the French or the Swedes or the Spanish.

Orban said, we don't want you all to be Hungarian.

You be you.

Let us be us.

But

But the European Union was not willing to settle for that.

And I think this has an analogy of what Donald Trump has... Good.

Yeah.

So tell me the analogy to Donald Trump.

The analogy is that with the second Trump administration, I think he sort of followed the Victor Orban playbook, whether consciously or not, in sending Doge after USAID, going after the universities and things like that.

Because...

Prior to Trump, the Republicans, they were always

so soft, they were terrified of touching the universities, and so they presided over allowing our universities, our leading universities, to become sort of woke madrasas.

That's maybe a little bit of an overstatement, but not much of one.

At the same time, when the Democrats were in power, they would use the government's power under Title IX or whatever to push progressivism on the universities.

Trump realized that we on the right were fighting with one hand behind our back.

Now, I would love to live in a classical liberal world where the government did not get involved with the universities and the universities were left alone to govern themselves.

But look at what has happened in my lifetime and yours.

You've seen faculties go from being predominantly liberal to being almost wholly liberal.

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