Orbán's Defeat is a Defeat for Christian Nationalism

Like the journalist Lincoln Steffens, who, after visiting the Soviet Union in 1919, wrote, “I have seen the future, and it works,” America’s Christian nationalists saw the future working in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

Take Tucker Carlson, for example. Interviewing Orbán a year ago, he said, “I don’t mind sucking up: I think there’s a reason you’re the longest-serving leader in Europe. I think history, for all the criticism you’ve taken, will (vindicate you).”