David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

In 1981, the social scientist Paul Hollander published "Political Pilgrims," a landmark study of Western intellectuals who toured and gushed over gruesome communist regimes: Stalin's USSR, Mao's PRC, Castro's Cuba, etc. Now we have right-wing equivalents making Haj to Budapest — PolitiTweet.org

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David Frum @davidfrum

When American media personalities express admiration for Orban, that is what they are admiring: plunder of the public for the benefit of a complicit few; suppression of media that report the plunder; racism and reactionary religion as cover for the gullible and/or hypocritical. — PolitiTweet.org

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A NYT review summarized Hollander's account of the gullibility of midcentury left-wing intellectuals viewing communism abroad. It well applies to 21st century right-wing intellectuals on their tours of their fantasy lands https://t.co/VGTyRd0KFa https://t.co/PKMTRPjfk8 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 3, 2021