The analyst says Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is providing U.S. conservatives a blueprint for a new government “dictated by Trump.”
Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is working to implement the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to institutionalize Trumpism, an analyst and professor wrote on Thursday.
Roberts has been in the spotlight for his recent comments celebrating the Supreme Court’s July 1 ruling on presidential immunity. He said the country is in the midst of a “Second American Revolution” against “elites” and “despotic bureaucrats.”
Roberts’ Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, created Project 2025, a controversial set of policies for a future Republican administration. The proposals seek to expand the powers of the presidency and fire “deep state” civil servants in the federal government to replace them with conservative loyalists.
Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, joined the growing chorus of analysts criticizing Roberts’ comments and policy proposals as being authoritarian. In Letters From an American, her Substack blog, she discussed Roberts’ close affiliation with the regime of Orbán, Hungary’s strongman leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in NATO and the European Union.
