Long a safe space where conservatives could say what they really thought, this year the
Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) is hosting an event in Budapest, its first ever on the European continent.
Attendees will be treated to panels about “western civilization under attack” and be addressed by American conservative luminaries including the
former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and media figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. That Hungary has become an authoritarian state whose leader, Viktor Orbán, has deconstructed Hungarian democracy and become a close ally of Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem to faze anyone involved. In fact, it’s the whole point.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/20/conservatives-republicans-cpac-hungary-orban