Morning Briefing: Far Right Figures Gather in Budapest for CPAC Hungary
Morning Briefing: Far Right Figures Gather in Budapest for CPAC Hungary
Far right figures from around the world are gathering in Budapest, as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is hosting a second conference in Hungary this week.
Morning Briefing: During the next two days, far right activists from around the world will gather at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary, and the “online speakers list features quite a few American far-right figures.”
Viktor Orban, President of Hungary, said during his keynote speech that “Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of conservative policies. Hungary is the place where we didn’t just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it.”
Derrick Peterson, a candidate for the Portland school board with “Christian nationalist affiliations,” is now “withdrawing his candidacy.”
Residents of Gillette, Wyoming have reported receiving “white supremacist propaganda in the mail,” and this incident follows another incident last month “when a number of anti-Semitic flyers were left outside of homes in a Gillette neighborhood.”
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