{"id":2662291,"date":"2026-09-16T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigna-warning-from-hungary-the-western-left-is-in-search-and-destroy-mode-and-america-could-be-next\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:57:10","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigna-warning-from-hungary-the-western-left-is-in-search-and-destroy-mode-and-america-could-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigna-warning-from-hungary-the-western-left-is-in-search-and-destroy-mode-and-america-could-be-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning From Hungary: The Left Is In Destroy Mode, And US Could Be Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigna-warning-from-hungary-the-western-left-is-in-search-and-destroy-mode-and-america-could-be-next%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2662291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As Viktor Orban&#8217;s departure as Hungarian Prime Minister after 16 years, his successor, peter magyar, has established a government characterized by liberal authoritarianism, rather than the promised new conservatism. Orban, a critic adn former political director for Fidesz, warns that the new regime is conducting political and economic purges aimed at permanently removing conservatives from Hungary\u2019s political landscape, with measures such as banning Orban from future elections, removing nearly half of Fidesz politicians, and altering the constitution to undermine opposition figures. the regime is implementing policies that reverse laws protecting children from gender and sexual propaganda, re-nominate judges aligned with progressive agendas, and nationalize conservative institutions, shutting down the Hungarian version of the Heritage Foundation and the Museum of Terror, which Orban considers a memorial to communism. Orban equates Magyar\u2019s government with \u201cthe new communists,\u201d accusing it of ideological hostility rooted in globalist and Brussels influences aimed at degrading conservative values. The government is also pursuing asset confiscation and punitive measures against conservative supporters,including de-banking and potential imprisonment,fostering fear among ordinary citizens.Orban warns that this pattern of authoritarianism could replicate in the United States if conservatives do not maintain power, emphasizing that liberals, if defeated electorally, are likely to pursue a campaign of institutional destruction, much like what has unfolded in Hungary. He cautions that losing political authority could force conservatives to surrender their cultural and societal identity, citing recent US examples of political exploitation and infighting as warning signs of a broader global trend.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 It has been just over four months since conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban left office after 16 years of running the country, and what replaced him was not the \u201cnew conservatism\u201d promised to the Hungarian people by Western elites, but rather a \u201cliberal authoritarian rule,\u201d according to a conservative Hungarian politician.<\/p>\n<p>Viktor Orban had been persistently demonized by Western leftists and their friends in the corporate media as the bogey man for right-wing authoritarianism, using him as the example for what President Donald Trump might do in America, and while neither Trump nor Orban were anything they were accused of, the true authoritarians have quickly made their presence known.<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist sat down with Balazs Orban, a member of the Hungarian National Assembly who is of no familial relation to the former prime minister but served as his political director for five years. Orban, a member of the Fidesz party, came to the United States this week with a warning for the country ahead of the midterms: Western liberals are on the warpath, and conservatives losing elections has much greater consequences than just being in the minority for a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strategy of the new government is a political and economical purge of the conservatives in the in the country,\u201d he said of the regime under Hungary\u2019s new Prime Minister, Peter Magyar. \u201cThey want to make sure that conservatives are never coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magyar\u2019s election was sold as a conservative alternative to Viktor Orban, but the moment the election results came in, he was showered with support by socialist politicians from across the world, including Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/tvpworld.com\/92599259\/obama-us-democrats-praise-hungary-election-result\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/2043424089277128727?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/united-states\/us-democrats-cheer-defeat-of-trump-ally-orban-in-hungary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chuck Schumer<\/a>, D-N.Y., Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orban-hungary-election-trump-republicans-6be613a3ac64c5efdb94b31be4bf18e6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Van Hollen<\/a>, D-Md., House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/united-states\/us-democrats-cheer-defeat-of-trump-ally-orban-in-hungary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, D-N.Y., and many more. European socialists like Spanish Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/espana\/2026\/04\/12\/pedro-sanchez-celebra-la-victoria-de-peter-magyar-en-las-elecciones-de-hungria-hoy-ganan-europa-y-los-valores-europeos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pedro Sanchez<\/a>, then-United Kingdom Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/viktor-orban-hungary-election-result-peter-magyar-keir-starmer-b1278454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a>, Danish Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/european-leaders-fete-hungarian-oppositions-victory-over-orban-as-win-for-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mette Frederiksen<\/a>, and many more did the same.<\/p>\n<p>Orban said Magyar\u2019s regime is a \u201cBrussels operation,\u201d meaning he is doing the bidding of the globalist powers that be in the European Union, and that it has some juggernaut governing dynamics Americans have become familiar with in the last ten years, like the left using government power to destroy their political opponents and fundamentally undermining cultural cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see the signs everywhere in in Europe. I see the signs here in the United States as well before midterm,\u201d Orban said. Conservatives \u201chave to protect their their power to to govern because otherwise, [Democrats] are going to come back and destroy everything which was done. And this conservative movement in the United States of America achieved wonderful things on migration issue, on gender issue, on family support issues, and on on many things.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018These Are The New Communists\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>However, other aspects of the left-wing authoritarianism under Magyar has been systematic and harsh, and Orban says that could be what the future holds in America, if conservatives do not maintain governing power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were accusing us of being autocrats for 16 years, just like American Democrats, and we were backed by the people,\u201d Orban said. \u201cAfter 16 years, we lost the election, we immediately transferred the power and said, \u2018Okay, it\u2019s now your turn.\u2019 But it turned out that our opponents are real authoritarians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Orban, the first thing Magyar\u2019s government did when taking office was ban Viktor Orban from being able to be re-elected if the Hungarian people chose to do so, and then quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp8r002gdevo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banned<\/a> nearly 50 percent of the politicians in his Fidesz party from being re-elected as well.<\/p>\n<p>Magyar\u2019s and his party then altered the Hungarian constitution to \u201cterminate the political mandate\u201d of some constitutional officers, including President Tamas Sulyok, who was effectively removed from office by coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said that the president is not in line with the new policies, so he has to go,\u201d Orban said.<\/p>\n<p>The new government is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hungarianconservative.com\/articles\/current\/hungary-lgbt-adoption-child-protection-gender-recognition-proposal-reform-ngo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">re-install adoption for gay couples<\/a>, and reverse laws that restricted the promotion of homosexual activity and gender transitions for children. The new regime has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailynewshungary.com\/hungarian-parliament-new-consitutional-judges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nominated<\/a> five new judges to the country\u2019s high court, ostensibly with the intention to uphold the laws the Magyar government passes. Their nominations have been seen as a further dismantling of the Viktor Orban government, and Balazs Orban maintains that many of them are \u201cgender activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their upholding of the gender ideology laws will be necessary for the Magyar regime because the laws protecting children from such propaganda were the subject of a European Union Court of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hungarianconservative.com\/articles\/current\/orban-child-protection-law-lgbtq-gender-landmark-ruling-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruling<\/a> against them.<\/p>\n<p>The new judges and laws promoting homosexuality are part of the new government\u2019s attempt to \u201cplease their liberal masters in Brussels,\u201d Orban told The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>Far from limiting their purview to governmental institutions, the Magyar government started nationalizing longtime conservative institutions like the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the Danube Institute, and conservative news outlet Mandiner. <\/p>\n<p>Orban compared these organizations to the Hungarian versions of the Spectator or the Heritage Foundation, and after nationalization, they were shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right-wing intellectual media platform, they nationalized it and they closed it, and they ordered the police to go to Fidesz party HQ, and they collected all the data of the supporters of the party members,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Magyar government also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-09-15\/hungary-shuts-orban-s-controversial-communist-terror-museum?srnd=live-events-v2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shut down<\/a> the House of Terror Museum in Budapest, an institution opened in 2002 which Orban <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BalazsOrban_HU\/status\/2099825112069365907?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on social media is \u201cone of the country\u2019s most important memorials to the victims of communism,\u201d and is in a building in which he says his grandmother was imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p>Magyar\u2019s regime fired the museum\u2019s founding director as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the new communists,\u201d Orban added on social media. \u201cFrom the moment it opened, the museum came under fierce political attack from post-Communist and progressive circles. They particularly objected to its \u2018Wall of Perpetrators\u2019 and to its insistence on judging Nazi and Communist terror by the same moral standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe director now suspects that the same ideological hostility may be behind the museum\u2019s closure,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BalazsOrban_HU\/status\/2099884027566022675?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continued<\/a>. \u201cShe argues that the post-Communist liberal intellectual milieu that attacked the museum from the beginning is now influential around the new government.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong><strong>\u2018Asset Confiscation Super Authority<\/strong><\/strong>\u2018<\/h2>\n<p>Constitutional overhauls and institutional capture are more structural ways to seize and exercise raw power, but for normal Hungarian citizens and business owners who are conservative, Orban said the Magyar government is conducting a retribution campaign intent on destroying their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Step one is to \u201ctrick the voters\u201d to obtain a governing mandate. Step two is to \u201cpurge the opposition when the voters are realizing that they were tricked.\u201d And step three is \u201ceverybody is punished who was part of this conservative movement,\u201d Orban told The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are really afraid,\u201d he said, \u201clike ordinary people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They target conservative supporters and treat them as criminals who should be in jail, Orban said, noting that their political preferences are viewed as tantamount to treason.<\/p>\n<p>The new regime will say \u201cyou were backing this government for 16 years, and they destroyed the country, so therefore you destroyed the country. They are criminals, so you are part of the mafia. We should take away your savings, and we should put you into jail, or put you under investigation, or it\u2019s better for you to leave the country, or to hang yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHang yourself\u201d was not hyperbole. According to Orban, \u201cmany people\u201d have committed suicide. <\/p>\n<p>Fidesz members, donors, and others associated with the party have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/people-linked-top-orban-aide-were-blocked-trying-send-funds-abroad-hungarys-2026-04-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debanked<\/a> or otherwise financially targeted by the Magyar government, and some have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/26\/viktor-orban-associates-wealth-hungary-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Magyar regime also attacks conservative political donors and their businesses. \u201cThey created an asset confiscation super authority, which was previously only in place under the communist regime, where they, without any judicial review, can overtake the management of a company.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u2018If You Give It Up, It\u2019s Like Nothing\u2019s Left\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The authoritarian left is tightening its stranglehold across Europe, largely dominated by Brussels, but Orban says similar powers could catch American conservatives off guard in the next election cycle if they do not pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>In the West, \u201cright now, many conservative movements are backed by a general dissatisfaction of the people,\u201d and that dissatisfaction is both \u201ccomplicated\u201d to govern under, and easy for political opponents to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Some of that has manifested as infighting on the right, to which Orban said \u201cit\u2019s not about like high-level metaphysical intellectual fights, but it\u2019s about really trying to make their life more easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/05\/us\/politics\/stay-at-home-parents-subsidies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">examples<\/a> like the Trump administration\u2019s plan to pay stay-at-home parents for raising their children.<\/p>\n<p>But a conservative loss in the Unites States will mean a sweeping retribution campaign, set on annihilating political opposition and American society and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Because of their institutional control, \u201cliberals, if they lose election, they just lose [a] term, but if conservatives lose the election, their entire everything falls,\u201d he said, adding, under the liberal regime, \u201cyou have to give up who you are \u2026 if you give it up, it\u2019s like nothing\u2019s left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The playbook in America has already had a trial run in places like Virginia, which elected a former CIA agent as a governor because she claimed to be a \u201cmoderate,\u201d but turned out to be the most radical leader in that commonwealth\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same playbook that was run on Hungarians to elect Magyar, and it will be much more widespread in the midterms and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe liberals learned very fast and they realize that they losing the battle of arguments,\u201d Orban said. \u201cTo influence the conservative voters, they have to steal the language of the conservatives and use the same language during the election campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary&#8217;s new government is a liberal authoritarian regime, says ex-PM Viktor Orban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2662292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Balazs_Orban_54347557469.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[12874,58661,36260,38621,85740],"class_list":["post-2662291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hungary","tag-international-threats","tag-left-wing-politics","tag-political-warning","tag-us-political-climate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Balazs_Orban_54347557469.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662294,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662291\/revisions\/2662294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}