Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson returned to Hungary this week, where he interviewed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and spoke on the U.S.-Hungarian alliance and the future of Western civilization. The trip comes in the wake of a Biden administration increasingly determined to ostracize Hungary. But why is the U.S. determined to punish one small European democracy when it lets some of the world’s worst dictators off the hook?
It began with Hungary’s approach to illegal immigration and asylum during the Syrian Civil War in 2015. As millions fled the region, the European Union pushed a near unlimited acceptance of refugee claims. Hungary was one of only three member countries to say no. The democratically elected Orbán government imposed strict immigration policies in defiance of the EU and erected a now-infamous border wall. To the consternation of the rest of the progressive…
