From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, May 19th.

So what would you do on the week that a racist teenager killed 10 people in Buffalo on the grounds of the great replacement

conspiracy theory, the paranoid falsehood that there's a plot to replace white Christians in the

West with people of color, Muslims, and Jews. Well, if you're a supporter of CPAC, the conservative

political action conference, you might spend a few days after Buffalo going to a foreign country where an authoritarian leader espouses replacement theory as a head of state, right? Obviously. In fact, CPAC is holding a big event right now, scheduled before the Buffalo massacre, to be sure, but undeterred in spite of it,

in the nation of Hungary, where the leader who fits that bill is President Victor Orban.

You know who likes them?

Victor Orban has done a tremendous job in so many different ways, highly respected, respected all over Europe,

probably like me a little bit controversial, but that's okay.

Donald Trump himself is not at CPAC, but that's the kind of thing Trump has said about

Orban in the past. We pulled that clip from Mara Liasson's NPR piece on this topic yesterday.

Maybe you heard it. Mara will join us in just a minute to explain further. She also included

this clip of Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union, who is speaking at the conference,

and sees in Orban, a supporter of Schlapp's interest in imposing his religious beliefs on government

policy, as he says Orban is doing in Hungary.

He has embraced their Christian heritage. And if Christian societies want to have their values

reflected in government, that's a good thing. He said the quiet part out loud there, didn't he? Yes, he does want his religion reflected in government policy.

Orban just gave the keynote address at CPAC in Budapest a short time ago.

He said things similar to this quote of him from a speech on Monday, in which he

referred to a, quote, suicide attempt by other Western leaders, quote, the great European

population replacement program to replace the missing European Christian children with migrants,

that quote, from Victor Orban, to whom American conservatives are flocking.

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