💬 Opinion 1d ago · Steven Greenhut

After Viktor Orbán's Defeat in Hungary, the 'New Right' Needs a New Foreign Despot To Admire

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After Viktor Orbán's Defeat in Hungary, the 'New Right' Needs a New Foreign Despot To Admire
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After Marxist-inspired Sandinista revolutionaries overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979, the American political left fell in love with the movement's guerrilla leader, Daniel Ortega. Even as the U.S. government funded the Contras to overturn the new regime as part of Cold War machinations, progressives flocked to the Central American nation to see the wonders of the fledgling socialist paradise.
"By now American liberals have created a virtual industry of delegations to Nicaragu

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