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Viktor Orban

Proposed Legislation Threatens a Backslide on U.S. Democracy

Orbanization, American Style

A “Stop Terror-Financing” bill that has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives has raised red flags for its similarity to “foreign agent” laws — a cornerstone of repression in Putin’s Russia and Orban’s Hungary. But with the incoming Trump administration, the bill has a good chance of becoming law.