One probably significant difference between the USA and Hungary is size. It is about the size of Indiana. It has no coasts. It is mostly Caucasian-Christian, has a long history of Nazi sympathizing, and it this culturally homogeneous. The USA is more like an Oreo cookie - Diverse on the outside (coasts), white-supremacist on the inside. …
One probably significant difference between the USA and Hungary is size. It is about the size of Indiana. It has no coasts. It is mostly Caucasian-Christian, has a long history of Nazi sympathizing, and it this culturally homogeneous. The USA is more like an Oreo cookie - Diverse on the outside (coasts), white-supremacist on the inside. But with diversity comes wealth, higher education, etc. Those are things most red states lack. What is the capital of Montana? Who cares? What is the state known for? Cowboys and hatefulness? Where are most of the top universities located. Harvard, Yale, Chicago U, Stanford, UCLA, U of Wisconsin, U of Michigan? Blue cities.
The late journalist Hunter Thompson pointed out that fascists gain power through fear and loathing. Their politicians try to convince voters that small, misunderstood minorities are coming for their loved ones to rape and rob and even convince them to cut off their genitals or turn queer. That fear leads them to loathe such minorities and to support fascist laws to stifle information that might infect their loved ones, without realizing that they are enabling their own exploitation.
Blue states do understand that, and they will opposes those changes where they can. Hungarian fascism does not have much in the way of opposition, so control of the masses, stifling freedom of information and annoying alternative views is not so easy in huge countries.
One probably significant difference between the USA and Hungary is size. It is about the size of Indiana. It has no coasts. It is mostly Caucasian-Christian, has a long history of Nazi sympathizing, and it this culturally homogeneous. The USA is more like an Oreo cookie - Diverse on the outside (coasts), white-supremacist on the inside. But with diversity comes wealth, higher education, etc. Those are things most red states lack. What is the capital of Montana? Who cares? What is the state known for? Cowboys and hatefulness? Where are most of the top universities located. Harvard, Yale, Chicago U, Stanford, UCLA, U of Wisconsin, U of Michigan? Blue cities.
The late journalist Hunter Thompson pointed out that fascists gain power through fear and loathing. Their politicians try to convince voters that small, misunderstood minorities are coming for their loved ones to rape and rob and even convince them to cut off their genitals or turn queer. That fear leads them to loathe such minorities and to support fascist laws to stifle information that might infect their loved ones, without realizing that they are enabling their own exploitation.
Blue states do understand that, and they will opposes those changes where they can. Hungarian fascism does not have much in the way of opposition, so control of the masses, stifling freedom of information and annoying alternative views is not so easy in huge countries.