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Péter Magyar

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Péter Magyar’s landslide victory over Viktor Orbán in the April 2026 Hungarian election presents both a problem and solution to the American Right. It indicates that the Republicans will be slaughtered in the 2026 midterms and quite possibly the 2028 presidential election — if things stay the same. But it also shows a path to not just an electoral victory, but a landslide like Magyar’s.

We cannot blindly extrapolate from the Hungarian electorate to the American. (more…)

Source: European Parliament

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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is both the smartest politician in Europe and, from my point of view, the most ideologically sound. Thus it came as a big surprise that he was soundly trounced in last Sunday’s elections. Why did this happen, and what does it bode for Hungary and for the nationalist-populist Right more broadly?

Orbán lost because of bad luck, which he could not control, and bad decisions, which he could control. (more…)

Péter Magyar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The world’s eyes were on Western Europe in Sunday’s European Union elections, where dramatic results were expected in France and Germany. Angelo Plume has already offered an account of these results. But unusual things have been happening in Hungary as well, which has been a focal point of hope for populism ever since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán began his current tenure in 2010.

Hungary wields little power in comparison to the “great nations” of Western Europe. Hungary is only allotted 21 seats out of 720 in the European Parliament, compared to Germany’s 96 and France’s 81. (more…)

Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia  Commons

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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 32nd Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 22. The text is reprinted, with some minor alterations of style, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial.

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Summer Camp. We have arrived here after advancing through the Romanian troops. (more…)

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The French-language news portal Breizh-Info has published a long interview in French with Hungarian Member of Parliament László Toroczkai, who is the leader of the opposition nationalist parliamentary group Mi Hazánk Mozgalom. The following is an English translation.

László Toroczkai has been a leading figure in Hungarian nationalism for 25 years. His biography has few equals in this political milieu. He began as a young parliamentary assistant working with the Hungarian Justice and Life Party, or MIÉP, in the late 1990s, which was a nationalist party that had parliamentary representation between 1998 and 2002. (more…)

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John Morgan talks about the prospects for uniting religion and ethnonationalism, as well as the inauspicious history that the two have with each other,  in this video from the 2023 Counter-Currents Spring Retreat. The text of the talk, including links for more information, is here. (more…)

The only genuine traditional form of society: one ruled by a nobility that is guided by a priesthood.

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The following is the text of a talk that was given at the recent Counter-Currents Spring Retreat. The video can be seen here, or below.

Cyan asked me to speak on this topic, and before I begin, I just want to clarify something, because when it comes to these matters I’m overly pedantic. But historically speaking, ethnonationalism and religion don’t go together. This is because the nation-state itself, which was born out of either the French Revolution or the Second English Civil War, depending on who you ask, has always been secular and opposed to any mixing of politics and religion. (more…)

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I met Béla Incze at the very intense sports camp of Légió Hungária (LH) in Hungary, as I previously wrote about. Béla is part of the group’s leadership. I was intrigued by his organization and its activities. I think a similar one could work in other European countries. Béla’s life story is also interesting, so I decided to interview him. We discussed sports, Hungarian politics, nationalist activities in Hungary, combat sports, the Hungarian youth, women, destroying a BLM statue, historical Hungary, holding demonstrations, and Viktor Orbán. I think we will hear more about him in the future. (more…)

Bývalý předseda Jobbik Gábor Vona v roce 2015. Strana již od počátku roku 2013 začala „uhlazovat“ svoji militantní podobu.

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Jobbik, svého času označovaný za nejradikálnější parlamentní stranu v Evropě, se v průběhu několika málo let proměnil v centristické a Evropské unii nakloněné uskupení, čímž zcela opustil svou dřívější radikální rétoriku, namířenou proti EU, NATO, hnutí LGBT nebo cikánské zločinnosti. Dnes se strana pokouší vytvořit spojenectví s liberální a progresivní levicí s cílem svrhnout vládu premiéra Viktora Orbána a jeho strany Fidesz. V tomto článku se pokusíme stručně nastínit průběh tohoto politického obratu o 180°. (more…)

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán set himself a very high rhetorical bar with his speech in Transylvania in July. In one sense it could be seen as a sort of “coming attractions” for his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech in Texas, which he gave less than two weeks later. (more…)

Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia  Commons

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Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, made international headlines in recent weeks with two speeches, the first in Tusványos, Transylvania and the second at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas. (more…)

Orbán. Photo: Wikimedia  Commons

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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 23. The text is reprinted, with some added annotations, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial. A video including the English text in subtitles is also linked below. (more…)

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John Morgan was host Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed a selection of the best Counter-Currents articles from April, particularly John’s own articles on this month’s white-pilling national election in Hungary, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)