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David Frum @davidfrum
Hungary's GDP per capita is a little under 16,000 USD according to the World Bank. https://t.co/0EeDx2qjDy That's significantly less than Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia - barely ahead of Romania. If Hungary were to lose its 7 points of EU-sourced donations - it's hello, Bulgaria. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Hungary's GDP per capita is a little under 16,000 USD per the World Bank, less than Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and barely ahead of Romania and Croatia. Knock seven points off that 16,000 - and hello, Bulgaria. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Another three points of Hungary's GDP are remittances from Hungarians working abroad, again mostly elsewhere in the European Union. https://t.co/0AIOwNcI9H — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Orban apologists are now telling me what a great job of economic management their guy is doing. Four points of Hungary's GDP is transfers from the European Union that Orban and they despise as a woke totalitarian nightmare. https://t.co/3kMYObamya — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
In sum, liberal democracy is good. Communism, fascism, theocracy, and kleptocratic authoritarianism are bad. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @jonathanchait: https://t.co/jOVAvrsGM0 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Salazar: https://t.co/2tr2i02LN2 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's weird to read US right-wingers praise for the Salazar regime in Portugal with no mention - or even any apparen… https://t.co/eN6NetJ2NJ
David Frum @davidfrum
Threads about the current right-wing infatuation with Viktor Orban's Hungary and Antonio Salazar's Portugal. Orban: https://t.co/uXG3TQvLZX — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The most important thing to understand about Viktor Orban is that he's a huge crook. https://t.co/5cbEp2Sz2G
David Frum @davidfrum
Salazar, an economist, understood the predatory basis of the regime he led. His latter-day American admirers seem to have no clue, or anyway talk and write as if they had no clue. But Salazar's own people chose a different future the moment the boot lifted from their necks. END — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Without the wealth extracted from its overseas empire, Salazar's (absurdly misnamed) "New State" was doomed. The instant the empire was lost, the New State collapsed - and Portugal had no choice but to join the modern world. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
France and Britain released their African empires in the early 1960s. Why did Salazar hang on for another dozen years? Salazar's wish for a frozen Portuguese social order - dominated forever by landlords and bishops - could only be kept afloat by the profits of empire. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Of course, the cost of the wars to Portugal was only the tiniest fraction of the cost in blood and treasure to Portugal's African colonies: tens of thousands of civilians killed, hundreds of thousands displaced - and ultimate victory to Moscow-aligned radicals. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Rather than be conscripted into Salazar's wars, Portuguese fled the country. In 1960, metropolitan Portugal had a population of about 8.8 million. Over the next 14 years, about 1.5 million people would emigrate from Salazar's Portugal. 4/x https://t.co/cbRdCJJ8QX — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
By the time the Salazar regime collapsed, tiny Portugal was supporting a military establishment of more than 200,000 men. At the peak, the Salazar regime spent half the national budget on war-fighting in Africa. https://t.co/8MYubVibci 3/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
These right-wing accounts represent the Salazar regime as a quiet idyll of Catholic orderliness. In fact, Salazar's state spent the final 15 years of its existence committed to wars of appalling violence and enormous cost in life and money. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's weird to read US right-wingers praise for the Salazar regime in Portugal with no mention - or even any apparent awareness - that the regime's biggest and most expensive project was to fight and lose three massive, bloody colonial wars in Africa between 1960 and 1974. 1/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @nytimes: Breaking News: New York will require proof of vaccination for indoor dining and gyms, Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to announce.… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @SeanCasten: This piece from @davidfrum a good diagnosis of why the @GOP remains so cowardly in the wake of January 6th. Insightful and… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @JuliaManch: Potential 2024 GOP contender Kristi Noem endorses Jan Timken in the party's Ohio Senate primary https://t.co/XSIX7I9A1i — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
... in 2021 as in 1941, the slogan "America First" can be so readily translated: "All-expense-paid stooge of a foreign dictator." END — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
... Anybody who could endorse and justify what was happening/has happened in Hungary is betraying everything that our parents and grandparents in every NATO country invested and risked so much to defend and enlarge. It's an especially grim irony that ... — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
I visited Hungary in 2016. Again & again, I witnessed a gesture I thought had vanished from Europe forever: people turning their heads to check who was listening before they lent forward to whisper what they had to say. They feared for their jobs, not their lives - but still ... — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
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
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
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
David Frum @davidfrum
Unlike his model and mentor Vladimir Putin, Orban is not a killer. To that degree, at least, the EU has constrained him. Otherwise, tho', Orban had modeled how to convert a former liberal democracy - which Hungary more or less pre-2010- into a regime of authoritarian plunder. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The reactionary racial and religious message of the Orban message is syrup for suckers. Orban himself is just a robber. His shrewder supporters recognize who's the fool at the poker table - but of course the fools themselves never do. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
I wrote in 2017 about how modern autocracy is motivated above all by greed, not ideology. https://t.co/zx5HE02N19 https://t.co/s9oD9uM7Q9 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
An important reason for Orban's hatred of - and ultimate suppression of - Hungary's independent media is that those media kept reporting on Orban's thievery. https://t.co/QaeMLmhtdR https://t.co/JrL35NqAMk — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's kind of funny that Orban is so admired by so many Americans obsessed with the Clinton Foundation - because corrupt foundations have been one of Orban's favorite means for grabbing control of other people's assets. https://t.co/Pva7bqfFrK https://t.co/Auw3jT5svZ — PolitiTweet.org
