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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Later this week, Donald Trump will host Hungarian leader Victor Orban at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

This comes as it remains in doubt whether the U.S. Congress

will pass badly needed military aid to Ukraine amid signs that Vladimir Putin and Russia are

making new gains in the war. All these developments are related and not in a good way.

Trump's romance with Orban and the opposition of Maga Republicans to helping Ukraine

are part of the same story in which the American right is increasingly besotted with Putin

and other assorted dictators, including Orban, and, of course, would-be dictator for a day,

Donald Trump.

Here to discuss all this is Jacob Heilbrun,

author of a great new book called America Last, the rights century-long romance with foreign

dictators. The relevance of that to the current moment speaks for itself. Welcome, Jacob.

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