Opinion | Hungary Is No Mannequin for Conservatives

One of many stranger phenomena of the age is {that a} sure sort of conservative now holds out Hungary because the mannequin of Christian governance to which the West ought to aspire. This explains why this week you’ve learn greater than you ever wished to about final Sunday’s re-election of Viktor Orbán as prime minister of the small and dysfunctional European state.

The case for Orbánism is that Mr. Orbán fights. His worldwide status and a few of his home success are constructed on a string of fierce political conflicts with European Union grandees in Brussels and throughout the bloc’s different member nations.