Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: Why Carlson’s Alliance With Hungarian Fascism Matters - August 3, 2021
“Ben Lorber, a research analyst at Political Research Associates, told FAIR:
Carlson’s affinity for Orbán borders on self-caricature. The two leaders have perfected an illiberal and anti-democratic style of demagoguery centered around the Blaming a person or group wrongfully for some problem, especially for other people’s misdeeds. Scapegoating deflects people’s anger and grievances away from the real causes of a social problem onto a target group demonized as malevolent wrongdoers. Learn more and A way of portraying a person or group as malevolent, sinful, or evil; often a precursor to scapegoating and conspiracism. Learn more of immigrants, refugees and other maligned “others” in pursuit of their ultranationalist agenda.
Whether from a Fox newsroom in the USA or from the halls of power in Hungary, Carlson and Orbán inflame the race and gender-based grievances of millions of followers, offering a world in which conspiracy theory is substituted for reality, democratic norms and institutions are delegitimized, and vulnerable minorities are stripped of human rights and singled out for acts of An attitude toward social identities that can be mobilized to justify discrimination, state/vigilante violence, and exploitation. Learn more , political persecution and worse.
Growing transnational alliances between Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more leaders such as these further threaten the already tenuous fabric of multiracial democracy around the world.”
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