While MAGA faces challenges at home, Rubio seeks to export it abroad

(Stephen Collinson – CNN) President Donald Trump often seems frustrated that many Americans don’t appreciate that they are living in his “golden age.”. But that’s not stopping him from trying to export his ideology by intervening in politics and elections abroad to promote or preserve right-wing populist leaders. This explains Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s mission this week to bolster Hungary’s pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of April’s general election. Orbán, a populist strongman, was MAGA before MAGA existed. His politicizing of the justice system, hardline immigration policies, empowerment of sympathetic oligarchs and attacks on the press are a blueprint for Trump’s second term. But he’s facing his biggest political challenge in 15 years of uninterrupted power. – Analysis: While MAGA faces challenges at home, Rubio seeks to export it abroad | CNN Politics