“National conservatives” are forging a global front against liberalism
The alliance may be incoherent, but that does not make it harmless
YOU MIGHT call Budapest a Mecca, were Islam not anathema to the pilgrims flocking there. An anti-Davos would be a better description: a place where conservative nationalists from all over the world gather to compare notes on how to defeat international liberalism. Either way, Hungary’s capital is at the heart of a global movement to reinvent right-wing politics.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Nationalists of the world, unite!”
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