Today, President Donald Trump will welcome Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the Oval Office. Orbán has spent a career casting himself as a freedom fighter. First, against the oppressive yoke of Soviet communism. More recently, against the United States , the European Union , George Soros and others he claims propagate “woke” ideology.

While Orbán spends a fortune projecting himself as an unflinching bulwark of conservative values in a world swallowed up by the blackhole of cultural decline, the reality of his politics tells a different story.

Having spent years representing the United States of America in Hungary, I came to see Orbán as an extraordinarily talented man. But his talent has little to do with advancing conservatism. His true talent is the nihilist flair wit

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