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Today, Explained

How to lose a democracy in 10,000 days

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The same man who helped usher in democracy in Hungary is the one who’s chipping away at it now. American conservatives want to know how Prime Minister Viktor Orban did it. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's today explained. I'm Sean Ramasfer and I'm no well king. No, well you and I have a favorite kind of question to answer on this show

0:06.5

Yes

0:07.5

Democracy we're both interested in democracy and how it's doing especially in these United States and today

0:13.4

You have once again left the district of Columbia to answer questions about how American democracy is doing

0:17.9

Where are you this time? No, is it Topeka? Is it Alaska? Is it to hunger? None of the above. I'm in Budapest Hungary

0:25.5

Well, that's not even in the United States. It's all the way across the Atlantic Ocean

0:30.2

But the reason I'm here Sean is because there's a certain type of American conservative that is looking at Hungary

0:36.9

Which used to be a democracy and now is not there's lots of anti-democratic stuff going on here and a lot of US

0:45.1

Conservatives are interested in how Hungary did this they think what's going on here is not such a bad thing

0:51.0

And so this week they've flown to Hungary for a big conservative conference and I am here too. We miss you. Oh

1:00.4

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger a pedal bike

1:05.5

It was a sort of slick little row bike and it I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

1:11.4

It was so obvious where it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it

1:15.2

And I was so guest for that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

1:20.3

So for that one change me a little joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks

1:39.3

Hello to all of our friends in Hungary. This is man among the high-profile

1:43.0

Conservatives going to the conservative political action conference or CPAC in Hungary

1:47.8

Matt Schlapp chairman of the conservative political action conference

1:52.0

We are so excited to come join you in your freedom

1:55.7

Loving country with a lot of our friends and VIPs for America

2:00.5

Candace Owens conservative activist conspiracy theorist friend of Kanye. Hey guys. It's canna-salons

2:06.4

I'm so looking forward to speaking at CPAC Budapest

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