新闻来源：www.abcnews.go.com
原文地址：The Hungarian leader Trump cites as a supporter champions ‘illiberal democracy’
新闻日期：2024-09-11
前总统特朗普在与副总统哈里斯的辩论中提到，匈牙利领导人奥尔班是其支持者的代表。
奥尔班是一位右翼民粹主义者，也是欧盟最久任的领导人之一。他提出“非自由民主”的理念，包括对移民和LGBTQ+权益的限制，并严格控制媒体和司法机构，在匈牙利这个曾经的共产主义国家中侵犯基本权利。
虽然在西方国家，奥尔班剥夺部分自由的行为引起了反感，但特朗普和他的共和党保守派仍然对他赞不绝口。2019年，特朗普还在椭圆厅接见过他，而他的前高级顾问斯蒂夫·巴诺甚至称奥尔班为“特朗普之前的特朗普”。
特朗普和其他保守派赞赏奥尔班对移民的零容忍态度，他在2015年建起了一条双层围墙来应对来自叙利亚等地的数十万难民潮。
他们也夸奖了匈牙利提高出生率的努力，向有孩子计划的家庭提供大量补助和低息贷款。奥尔班曾在6月的一场竞选活动中说：“欧洲缺乏足够的基督徒白人传统欧洲人，取而代之的是移民所占据的空缺。”
这种观点使他在保守政治行动大会（CPAC）上获得了很高支持。奥尔班还直言会支持特朗普，并称特朗普能快速结束俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争。
奥尔班是所有欧盟领导人中与普京关系最密切的一位，他不仅经常阻碍、拖延或淡化欧盟援助乌克兰和制裁莫斯科的努力，还一直主张停火，但没有详细说明这意味着什么，也没有考虑乌克兰的国家主权和领土完整以及欧洲和美国的安全影响。
在最近的一场辩论中，特朗普还提到奥尔班是他支持者的代表。一些重要民主党人对此表示不满，包括希拉里·克林顿和蒂姆·沃尔兹。
原文摘要：
Former President Donald Trump made room during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris to express the mutual admiration he shares with Viktor Orbán, the autocratic leader of Hungary who has cozied up with Russia and China and became a thorn in the side of his allies.
“They call him a strongman. He’s a tough person, smart,” Trump said of Orbán in response to Harris’ assertion that world leaders are “laughing” at the former president.
“Look, Viktor Orbán said it. He said, ‘The most respected, the most feared person is Donald Trump. We had no problems when Trump was president,’” Trump said.
Orbán, a right-wing populist and the European Union’s longest-serving leader, has become an icon to some U.S. conservatives for championing what he calls “illiberal democracy,” which includes some of the EU’s harshest restrictions on immigration and LGBTQ+ rights.
He has also cracked down on the press and judiciary in the formerly Communist Central European country and been accused by the EU of violating rule-of-law and democracy standards, all while vigorously pursuing ever deeper relations with Beijing and Moscow, considered adversaries by his allies in the NATO military alliance.
Yet despite the growing consensus in the West that Orbán has abridged fundamental freedoms in Hungary, Trump and his wing of the Republican party have embraced him. While still in office in 2019, Trump welcomed Orbán for a meeting in the Oval Office, unnerving some lawmakers, while his former senior adviser, Steve Bannon, called the Hungarian leader “Trump before Trump.”
The former president as well as such conservative eminences like Tucker Carlson have praised Orbán’s zero-tolerance attitude toward immigration — he built a double-layered fence along Hungary’s southern border in 2015, after hundreds of thousands of refugees, mostly from Syria, fled into Europe.
They also laud Hungary’s efforts to increase its flagging birth rate by offering generous subsidies and low-interest loans to families planning to have children, an effort Orbán has described as intended to avoid relying on immigration to remedy a declining population.
“There aren’t enough Christian, white, traditional Europeans in Europe,” Orbán said at a campaign rally in June. “Instead, there’s a vacuum filled by migrants.”
Such views have made him popular with the Conservative Political Action Conference, which has held events in the Hungarian capital of Budapest for the last three years. In 2022, he received a standing ovation at a national CPAC event in Dallas, telling the cheering crowd: “We must take back the institutions in Washington and Brussels. We must find friends and allies in one another.”
The Hungarian leader has openly endorsed Trump’s candidacy in the November election, and boldly shared Trump’s claim that the Republican will be able to swiftly bring an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Orbán, widely seen as having the warmest relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin among all EU leaders, has routinely blocked, delayed or watered down EU efforts to extend assistance to Kyiv and to sanction Moscow over its war. He has consistently pushed for a cease-fire but without detailing what it would mean for Ukraine’s statehood or territorial integrity, or the potential security implications for Europe and the United States.
In July, Orbán met with Trump at the former president’s beachside compound Mar-a-Lago and shared a photo of the two on social media with the caption: “We discussed ways to make peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it!”
On his own social media site, Trump posted: “Thank you Viktor. There must be PEACE, and quickly.”
Trump’s embrace of Orbán at the debate did not escape the attention of some prominent Democrats.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton called Orbán “the democracy-killing Hungarian dictator,” while Tim Walz, Harris’ running mate, told MSNBC late Tuesday: “He was asked for one world leader who is with him, and it was Orbán. My God, that’s all you need to know.”
