MAGA’s global model faces existential test in Hungary

(Zachary Basu – Axios) Vice President Vance on Tuesday will plunge into Europe’s most volatile election in years — a Hungarian campaign engulfed by spy scandals, sabotage and unprecedented peril for MAGA’s favorite foreign ally. Viktor Orbán is the cornerstone of President Trump’s vision for Europe. The pro-Kremlin, anti-EU strongman has spent 16 years building a template for Christian nationalist rule now embraced by the American right. Trump’s national security strategy openly calls for “cultivating resistance” in Europe by empowering nationalist forces like Orbán’s. His defeat would shatter that model at its source. Vance arrives in Budapest with a clear mission: Boost Orbán as an indispensable U.S. ally in the fight against migration and the liberal European order. – Trump MAGA global model faces big test in Hungary