Hungary PM Viktor Orbán Addresses CPAC as American Right Embraces His Authoritarian Rule

We speak with international affairs scholar Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary's constitutional democracy and how Prime Minister Viktor Orban has gained popularity among the American right ahead of his speech today at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Orban presents, especially for the American right, a kind of irresistible combination of culture war issues," says Scheppele. These culture war issues in Hungary disguise the fact that underneath the surface Orban has been changing the laws of the country so that gradually he has shut down all of the independent institutions that might tell him no." She says U.S. Republicans are now engaging in a very Orban-like" campaign to rig elections so they win regardless of the popular vote.