Below is my column in The Hill on the defeat of Viktor Orban. There was good-faith criticism of Orban as autocratic. However, the irony is that Hungary may have now cleared the way for the final stage of the European Union in overruling individual nations and their citizens on core policies.
Here is the column:
The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary last weekend was celebrated by many who saw the former president as establishing single-party rule in his central European nation. The irony is that this claimed victory for democracy may fuel the establishment of a global governance system that is neither democratic nor accountable to citizens.
The European Union was criticized by many for taking sides in the Hungarian election and for undermining Orban, who asserted national priorities in disputes with the EU. No sooner had Orban conceded defeat than a jubilant European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for the final coup de grace for national identity and sovereignty: the elimination of the ability of nations to stand against EU policies.
Orban was controversial for his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his lack of support for Ukraine. He was also accused of authoritarianism and corruption. I shared in some of those criticisms. However, the unintended consequence of this election could be the removal of a single autocrat in favor of a global bureaucracy.
Van der Leyen helped elect the pro-EU Peter Magyar in order to remove a barrier to the EU’s ultimate exercise of power. The EU had been squeezing Hungary over its defiance by holding back billions in funds. Despite his tough talk on negotiations with the EU, Magyar is expected by EU bureaucrats to be a suppliant, willing to fall into line with the EU agenda.
The EU Chief has reportedly already given Magyar a list of 27 demands he must meet before she will turn the spigot back on. She did not try to hide the agenda, announcing that the EU needed to “use the momentum now” to consolidate its power.
Under the plan, member states would lose control of their policy and could be forced to adhere to the priorities and values of the EU majority.
The EU Chief celebrated the new day of global governance in the making: “Moving to qualified majority voting in foreign policy is an important way to avoid systemic blockages, as we have seen in the past.”
In “Rage and the Republic,” I discuss the dangers posed to the American republic this century by the rise of global governance systems like the EU. The book explores how globalists planned to gradually get nations to yield their authority to the EU — destroying national identity and sovereignty in favor of an EU bureaucracy in Brussels.
As the EU moves to kill off national sovereignty, EU commissioners are calling for a single European military command, completing a longstanding globalist goal.
The 250th anniversary of our republic is occurring as we face an unprecedented EU threat. Our revolution was fought against a foreign empire. It now faces an even greater threat from a global government asserting the right to compel American companies to censor Americans and comply with environmental, social and governance or ESG policies.
At the same time, American figures such as Hillary Clinton are encouraging the EU to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights using the infamous Digital Services Act to restore speech controls to social media. Other Americans have testified before the EU, calling on it to fight the U.S. Banners are now flying in Europe declaring, “We are the Free World Now,” as the globalists attempt to supplant freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
If the American Republic is to survive another 250 years, it must preserve key rights that the EU has been systematically destroying in Europe — freedom of speech, division of powers and political accountability of decision-makers.
That is why, I believe, the EU is inherently unstable and likely to ultimately collapse.
The EU has worked very hard to dismantle national sovereignty and identity in its member states. Historically, such collapses have been followed by different forms of tyranny.
Whatever comes next — and I could be wrong in my pessimism about the EU — the U.S. must take seriously the threat that this global governance system poses to our own values and sovereignty.
Von der Leyen is right that there is “momentum now” for the globalists, but the momentum of history still rests with the U.S. and its unique experiment in self-governance.
We saw this threat before, and we defeated a world empire. If we are to survive and thrive in this century, we will need to return to our own creation as a republic — to dig deep down and remember who we are as citizens.
Ours was the first Enlightenment revolution that embraced natural rights originating not from government but from God. We remain a unique people, joined by an article of faith found in our own Declaration of Independence. If this republic is to survive, it will be up to each of us, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, to “keep it.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
“He was also accused of authoritarianism and corruption.” If such true – He were accused of corruption and diagnosed to trait in condition of Authoritarianism.
As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined.
Held are they higher.
I will note some optimism in the election of Peter Magyar, in that some of his ideas for governance are no different than Viktor Orban’s. Which side Magyar goes toward will be left to future decisions, but I’m hopeful he has a sense of national identity as he should, since his name implies Hungarian nationalism. It would be like running a candidate for President of the United States named Joe American.
I would prefer that Hungary extricate themselves from the EU, but I don’t have a vote. I have wished the EU would go away, but it’s still here. It is a scheme to draw power from its respective members and toward Brussels, to be handed out to its sycophantic members in rewards and benefits, to the detriment of the peripheral members. Similar to Washington, DC, the ones closest to the money spigot get extra benefits, which they receive more quickly than those at the outer edge.
Good to see you can cut-n-paste internet articles.
Faithful a skill to thank the author their defiance.
“Which side Magyar goes toward will be left to future decisions, but I’m hopeful he has a sense of national identity as he should, since his name implies Hungarian nationalism.”
Well, if Magyar’s election in Hungary remains somewhat ambiguous in that respect, this one in Bulgaria seems positive, although the precise consequences re the EU are not yet crystal clear:
Bulgarian Russia-sympathizer Radev secures decisive election win
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/apr/19/bulgarian-russia-sympathizer-radev-secures-decisiv/
It remains to be seen what Magyar will do with regard to the border. Up till now he has been speaking as a border hawk, not someone willing to kowtow to the EU’s border insanity. We shall see.
What a stupid comment.
Delighting in long pauses will give rest no worry.
HullBobby,
I agree. I am in wait and see what Magyar will do. Will he toe the EU line? Or continue to be a thorn in Brussels side like Orban was?
Meanwhile in Germany the AfD party has made more gains.
In the end, the Moors did conquer all of Europe. It just took 2 more centuries and a death wish resulting from externally exacerbated self-loathing on the part of most Europeans. Said death wish coming to a venue very near to you very soon, if the US doesn’t wake up quickly…
typo – should have been “4 more centuries”
Hey, the Hungarian voter asked for this change so HERE IT COMES!! Just wait till they see their illegal immigrant effect as the Muslims bum rush the border and rampage the sheeple! The EuroTrash Union is going to ensure Budapest looks like Paris in about 2-3 years with a Second Conquering of Hungary by the Muslims! The Bonus is the token Hungarian government will now self-neuter and subject its citizens to full thought control laws by the EuroTrash Illuminati! Enjoy the devastation as Hungarians as themselves in 5 years – “WTF just happened to us?”
The EU acts more like a retirement village than a vibrant enterprise competing within the world. They pursue taxation and regulation above innovation. They favor laws that give control to the village operators, i.e. themselves. Worse than that, they’re looking to morph their village into a nursing home in the next few decades.
gdonaldallen,
Germany, once the economic power house of Europe, embracing green energy policies is seeing that power house go up in flames.
Germany, once..? And who replaced Germany?
…”The European Union was criticized by many for taking sides in the Hungarian election and for undermining Orban, who asserted national priorities in disputes with the EU.”
So too for the United States. State Governors are much like a President (such as Orban) with the Federal Union of 50 overshadowing them as we enter the 2028 National Elections. States that have open Gubernatorial seats (i.e.: California) will see that the National Party’s agenda overtake the State election for the purposes of Nationalized control.
[What’s good for the Goose (EU) is good for the Gander (USA) in terms of controlling power – we are not unlike the current EU situation as you well describe]
“Our revolution was fought against a foreign empire. It now faces an even greater threat from a global government asserting the right to compel American companies to censor Americans and comply with environmental, social and governance or ESG policies. …
If the American Republic is to survive another 250 years, it must preserve key rights that the EU has been systematically destroying in Europe — freedom of speech, division of powers and political accountability of decision-makers.”
Ditto Jonathan – DITTO.
The EU may be celebrating a little too early. Mr. Orban’s successor was an acolyte of Mr Orban until 2024 and his party basically preaches the same thing as Mr. Orban. The problem, apparently for Mr. Orban, was the corruption of his party and him after 16 years in power. Observers in Hungary have written that the new government is the same as Orban’s but without the corruption. Otherwise it is virtually indistinguishable from Mr Orban. Time will tell.
The European Union will remain a threat to us because we are definitely a threat to them. They have never had the same outlook about rights and government that we have had.
Even before the DSA they had marked restrictions on speech in most countries. It has been illegal to even criticize the President of France for decades and dates from Charles DeGaulle. Similar in other EU countries.
When the EU was formed it was specifically not a Federal Union like the USA and they were quire outspoken about not wanting an American Style Federal Republic.
THE EU has significant problems in its economy. The EU, although having about 150 million people more than the US, used to match the USA in GDP but for years its growth has slowed or is stagnant. 2026 data suggests USA GDP is $ 32 trillion and the EU is $22 trillion. We have our problems, no doubt, but the EU is far more unstable politically and economically.
They point to how important they are yet their military actions show how impotent they are. We remain their shield, for now.
It’s going to be interesting.
“their military actions show how impotent they are…” What military actions? They carried none out. And not obligated to.
NATO is a defensive alliance. Do you understand what that means?
“NATO is a defensive alliance.”
It was founded as such. If you believe that remains the limit of its current mission scope, you probably also believe that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are real, and that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide…
The ESSU is borne out of the CIA demon seed … The European Soviet Socialist Union
There’s a Law & Liberty article out today called “The Social Wealth of Nations” that really fits this EU story. It lays out how we’ve let real community fall apart: thin family life, weak churches, no strong neighborhood or civic ties, and schools trying to carry the whole load by themselves. https://lawliberty.org/the-social-wealth-of-nations/?
That is what Mattias Desmet calls atomization, breaking people down into lonely individuals who are hungry for anything that gives them a sense of “we” again.
That’s where Turley’s EU piece comes in. When you’ve got fragmented, isolated populations, and then Brussels shows up offering a big project, big crises, and big “unity” from above while it strips away national vetoes and local control, that is exactly how mass formation and soft totalitarian systems get going. You hollow out real, local self‑government and social wealth, then you plug people into a managed identity and call it Europe.
Americans! Beware of the call from the Left in this country for cooperation with the EU as part of a “community of nations” effort. It will be nothing more than a strategy for tyranny.
Source: econlib.org. Quote: Based on the provided search context, there is no record of a Law & Liberty article titled “The Social Wealth of Nations” published today (April 20, 2026). However, Law & Liberty did recently publish a relevant article titled “The Juggling Act” on April 13, 2026, which discusses Adam Smith’s warnings against debt monetization in The Wealth of Nations. Additionally, the network is currently celebrating the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations with a series of essays, including recent posts on Econlib and Law & Liberty focusing on Smith’s concepts of natural liberty, innovation, and moral philosophy. “
Hey Olly, there is no article as yo claim. You fraud.
In defense of Olly, he is correct, there is a Law & Liberty article titled, “ The social Wealth of Nations.”
https://lawliberty.org/the-social-wealth-of-nations/
OLLY,
That was a very interesting read.
I think that is why we see the attempts by the leftists to further divide us with pronouns, DEI “oppressors,” “oppressed,” put us into “boxes.” It is a further break down of a civil society, free markets, and for a small group to control others.
Just look at the good professor’s blog as a microcosm of society. We have those who contribute interesting discussion, and those who dont.
Just look at the good professor’s blog as a microcosm of society. We have those who contribute interesting discussion, and those who dont.
Yes sir. Those that contribute far outnumber the attention-seeking trolls.
“Those that contribute far outnumber the attention-seeking trolls.” And that “attention seeking troll” would be … you?
Funny how you draw the stupidest of people to you. Simps actually. And they then pretend to understand everything you write. A messiah perhaps?
Do you have a name, or any you commenters know one another? At least by 1st name, where you live, background? Of course not.
That tells me you people live in a delusional internet universe. Akin to a cult.
And society thinks kids on social media is a crisis in progress. The problem is people like you, old, senile, useless, wasting time on social media.
That about right?
“We are the Free World Now!” declares the EU, “and if you disagree publicly, we will jail you.” These authoritarians in Brussels crave unchecked power the same way their National Socialist forebears did. It seems the mistake made by Hitler was in not calling his new unified Europe as a “union” and speaking of how great it would be that he was spreading unified freedom across all of his European Union. Any hint of disagreement that the EU is the new free world will be met with very harsh punishment. George Orwell would love it.
“Magyar is expected to be the perfect suppliant, willing to fall into line with the EU agenda.”
Someone is not keeping up with the news. Prime Minister Magyar-elect told Ursala von der Leyen to take her “Migration Pact” and shove it.
Try to keep up with the news. Politics in Europe is changing in the direction you want. Don’t cling too tight to your past grievances.
This one hits home for me. You’ve got von der Leyen out there saying “use the momentum” to kill what’s left of national vetoes. That’s a nice way of saying “get the little people out of the way.” They dress it up as fixing “blockages,” but everybody knows what it means on the street. If your country says no to some war, some sanction, some green scheme, some speech rule, too bad. Brussels votes, you obey. A veto is not a technicality. It is the one hard line that says, “we still own our house.” Take that out and you just turned nations into provinces.
Then I listen to Clarence Thomas in Texas, and he is talking about the same thing, just with our founding documents in his hand. He reminds people that our rights do not come from the EU, from Washington, or from some agency. They come from God. The government does not hand you a permission slip to speak, worship, defend your family and then yank it back when you get too loud. The whole point of the Declaration and the Constitution was to chain power down and leave the people standing tall, not the other way around.
What he is hitting is the same mindset you are warning about here. The idea that “the experts” and the big bureaucracies know best and regular people should just sit down, shut up, and let themselves be managed. In Europe they are doing it with this push to end vetoes and build an EU super‑state that can tell every member what to do. Over here we do it with alphabet agencies, censorship “rules,” and a class of folks who think the Constitution is in the way of their plans.
For me, the key word in all of this is formation. What kind of people are we making. If you raise generations to think of themselves as customers of government, or “users” on a platform, or problems for experts to solve, they will forget how to be citizens. They will keep voting, but they will stop thinking like owners. And once people stop thinking like owners, the people who run these systems will happily take full ownership.
So when von der Leyen talks about momentum, and Thomas talks about liberty dying when we choose comfort over courage, I hear the same bottom‑line question. Are we going to be citizens or subjects. Are we going to remember that our rights are bigger than Brussels and bigger than Washington, or are we going to let the global managers pat us on the head and tell us what “freedom” means now.
If we want this republic around for another 250 years, it is not enough to yell at Europe or complain about the administrative state. We have to get back to building people who can actually handle being free. People who know their rights, know their duties, and are willing to pay a price to keep both. That is street‑level work. Families, churches, local schools, small groups of neighbors who decide, “No, we are going to act like citizens again.”
That is what I hear under both your warning and Thomas’s. The fight is not just over structures. It is over souls.
Wow, what delusion, from Von der Leyden to Thomas? And what’s this “we” address?
Anonymous the parasite is awake and crying for his Mommy.
Olly, its all irrelevant nonsense you posted. Posting 500 jumbled words doesn’t make for easy reading, especially because you make no relevant points. You do not have the capacity or experience to understand EU/European foreign policy and politics vis a vis to US politics and foreign policy. In other words, a waste of time.
Have you ever contributed to academic or semi-academic publications? I would be shocked if you said yes, and then ask you to prove it. Your juvenile wordsmithing is nothing more than high school level pomp.
Olly at least was making a point, you on the other hand are just a critic.
And what is his point, may I ask?
You are intellectually incapable of rational and logical thought. And civil behavior.
Hullbobby, Edward Levile, NYC is almost certainly intending to make others feel he is a new respondent to the blog. He isn’t, and is one of the anonymi nuisances that constantly want to make us aware of their inadequacy. I know you know this, but I want this particular anonymous creature to recognize that we all know the fool he is.
OLLY makes great points that are above Anonymous’s intellectual level. He thinks he can take OLLY down to his level in the sewer: he can’t.
I certainly got Olly’s point. You sound like the Europeans in that 500 million are begging 350 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians
And what is his point, may I ask? Come on, lay it out. You won’t because there is no point. Your move.
Bill, you haven’t answered. What’s Olly’s point?
Dollar Bill, you are right and most of our 350 million citizens have had enough of the 500 million people’s taking money from us.
Anonymous, it is sad that you have no idea how stupid you sound, how juvenile and petty your comments are and how much mot of us laugh just at you.
hullbobby, it is sad that you have no idea how stupid you sound, how juvenile and petty your comments are and how much mot of us laugh just at you.
“mot”, you meany most perhaps. At least write coherently. You wrote “most of us”. And who exactly are “most” of you? The alliance of fools and idiots who populate this website? Geriatrics with mental and physical disorders.
BTW, thank you for that, at least some of the readers here understands what we write. You are a hateful old fart who doesn’t have any ideas worth expressing or, in fact, able to express.
Dollar Bill, you make a solid point. We didn’t just build a welfare state at home, we’ve basically built one at the international level too. We’ve got whole governments, NGOs and blocs like the EU hooked on somebody else’s money, somebody else’s security, somebody else taking the hard decisions for them.
The problem is not just the spending. It is the mindset it creates. You train people and nations to think like dependents instead of owners. Once that happens, it is easy for the “managers” in Brussels or Washington to tighten the leash. You say you are helping the weak, but what you really do is grow a class of clients who are too tangled up in the system to push back. That is how you end up with a global version of the welfare state, and it dovetails perfectly with the EU model Turley is warning about.
Dollar Bill,
Good point about the EU needing us to protect them. And yet they sneer at us.
Sneer at us? And they don’t have a reason for that, you’re saying?
What exactly do they owe you? Lay it out for all to see here. What do they owe you?
Farmer, I’d like to know. What do they owe the USA?
They owe us gratitude for the fact that the entire continent has not been speaking German since the 1940s. That gratitude should have no end.
OLLY,
Well said.
It is nothing more than a bunch of bureaucracies who want to control everyone else.
IIRC, Obama said something to the effect of “sit down and shut up.”
I think the unintended consequence of the COVID lock downs was during their attempt to control us, their so-called experts put on full display of how much they were not experts, how clueless they were, and various government persons and agencies were attempting control.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve!” /sarc
Thanks, Upstate, for the reminder. Good point about how their “experts” ended up blowing their own cover during Covid. While they were busy tightening the screws, they also showed us how hollow a lot of that expertise really was.
And this is where I think a lot of folks are about to get played again. Right now X is rummaging through his AI model to crank out a “reasonable” take that basically says we should lean into the same top‑down, expert‑driven setup Turley is warning about in this EU story. It will sound calm and clever and “moderate,” and underneath it will be the same bat‑shit crazy idea that the answer to failed central control is even more central control.
So beautifully put, Olly! Thank you!
Johnathon updates us on the worldwide growth of Res Ipsa. There seems a preponderance of growth in English speaking countries, but also other countries. How is our exercise of the Indispensable Right being received when it leaves our shores? That question is application of Vice President Vance’s address to the Munich security conference. The robustness of discussion here is a pretty good example of who we are. What say you?
Mike, that’s a thoughtful question. What we do here with free speech is pretty simple and pretty rare. People argue hard, they call each other out, they chase ideas down, and they keep coming back.
Nobody has to pretend to agree, and nobody has the power to push a button and erase the people they don’t like.
I don’t have a clear window into how this feels on the other end in Europe or elsewhere. All I really see from over here are the laws, the fines, and the stories Turley brings us about speech being managed from the top down. What I hope is that when readers overseas stumble into this comment section, they get to see another way of doing it. Ordinary people, not just blue‑check elites, working things out in public without asking permission first.
If that is getting through at all beyond our shores, that is a pretty good export.
Question: ” brings us about speech being managed from the top down.” And that has never happened in the history of the USA? America’s troubles come from Europe?
Olly ignores why “Qualified Majority Voting” (QMV) is being proposed. In the EU, a single country (like Hungary) can veto aid to Ukraine or sanctions against aggressors, effectively allowing one leader to hold 440 million people hostage.
Olly praises the U.S. Constitution for “chaining power down,” yet the U.S. itself does not allow individual states to veto federal wars or sanctions. By his own logic, the U.S. turned “nations into provinces” in 1789. He is defending a level of “sovereignty” for EU members that he likely wouldn’t grant to California or Texas.
GSX, if you knew about the countries you were talking about, you would understand why your comment lacks coherent thought. I will not spoon feed you, instead I will give you a hint. The Hungarian language isn’t even a romance language.
What has socialism/communism brought to the world except poverty, destruction and death? Nothing.
What has modern Islam brought to the world except poverty, destruction and death? Nothing
Yet the EU welcomed both to their Union.
And Capitalism never caused poverty, destruction and death? And what has Christianity bought? Death, destruction and poverty too.
You’re not a philosopher.
Selective Memory.
And you are ignored.
George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” isn’t fiction.
Yes it is. Seek help.
What was the difference between East Germany under Soviet rule and 1984. Not a whole lot in my mind even though 1984 was fictional
East GY was never under “Soviet” rule, as you so stupidly write. I take that back, you’re an Ami and clearly do not understand European istory unless it spoon-fed to you in tiny pieces. The DDR was an independent nation based on socialist ideology, independent politically and ideology from the CCCP.
Turley, you describe the election of Péter Magyar as potentially fueling an unaccountable bureaucracy, yet Magyar’s Tisza party won a historic supermajority with the highest number of votes in democratic Hungarian history. Framing the clear will of 3.3 million Hungarian voters as a “coup de grace” for national identity contradicts the very principle of self-governance you champion. It was a landslide. 78% of voters participated. That’s higher than our own voter participation.
Also, you suggest Ursula von der Leyen is using a “list of 27 demands” to consolidate power. In reality, these are rule-of-law reforms—including judicial independence and anti-corruption measures—that Hungary previously agreed to as a condition for EU membership. Restoring these standards is an effort to strengthen democratic accountability, not bypass it.
What Turkey is not directly pointing out is that this is really bad news for Trump and republicans. Trump was endorsing Orban.
According to you everything is really bad news for Trump. What is bad news for everyone is liberal cheating in elections all over the Earth.
How did you come up with load of BS?
George you are not a pundit. You should setup your own blog.
Neither are you, what’s your point?
One Government for all of EU is a bad idea.
They’ve had that for decades.
How do you know that? Lived in a One Government for all of EU, before?
I know because I live in the EU. It’s not what you think it is. Brussels works like a representative body of all signatory EU members. They don’t “rule” over everyone else. They reach consensus among member nations and set rules. This is what allows the free flow of commerce and jobs without border controls. Like in the Schengen zone. It works like it works in the USA. You don’t need to have “papers” to cross state borders. The only exception. Are non-EU countries like Switzerland and England.
The professor is a national treasure. But he is always so reluctant to point out that fascism exists in our own country and that it is on the left where he came from, even though he points out the facts and unmistakable conclusions every day.
One of the rare times I disagree with you Professor. “E Pluribus Unum”, and all that applies in Europe too. “Unity is our Strength”. While the policies of the EU can be justly criticized, forming “a more perfect union” cannot be. Just recall that the countries that make up the EU all were at one time monarchies. It will take them another century or two to appreciate freedom from government oppression. At the same time we are moving in their direction.
The EU Union would have been okay without communism and Islam but when the EU Union embraced both they were doomed. The US union is not that far away from that doom either. Neither World Communism or Islam ever give up and they both made huge inroads into the US under Joe Biden. Vigilance is no longer enough, they both need to be removed or we are doomed too. Do we have the will or even the numbers to do that? Probably not.
Whether you agree with him or not is irrelevant. Its his blog. Your Juvenile comments are an annoyance.
WOL, I’ve got to be honest, I’m surprised to see you, of all people, leaning on “E pluribus unum” here.
Our motto was never just a feel‑good slogan about “unity.” It had a very specific meaning in a very specific story. Out of many colonies came one people, under one Constitution, with one rule of law that was built to protect God‑given rights and keep government in its place. Out of many states, one nation, under a shared culture and charter that everybody signed onto with their eyes open.
What the EU is doing is almost the reverse. They are taking many cultures, many legal traditions, and many ideas of what “rights” and “sovereignty” mean, and they are folding them under a remote structure in Brussels with its own rulebook. That rulebook may or may not line up with what those nations and their people have come to understand as their rights. When von der Leyen talks about ending the national veto, she is not talking about “out of many, one” in the American sense. She is talking about “out of many, you now answer to us.”
Your take on this is kind of like saying, “Hey, we’ve got an HOA, so it’s all E pluribus unum, right?” No. There is a big difference between neighbors agreeing to basic rules so everybody can live in peace, and the HOA board voting that you have to keep your front door unlocked so they can walk in whenever they think you “need protection.” And then telling you by the way, you don’t get a veto. That is not unity. That is control.
The whole point of the American version of “out of many, one” was that the “one” was limited, grounded in the Declaration, and answerable to the people. The EU version you’re defending here is a “one” that is trying to cut off every last way the “many” can say no. That should set off alarms for anyone who actually cares about freedom from government oppression, especially someone with your background in the law.
What a heap of BS. From E Pluribus Unum to the EU? A failed leap, as usual. The medication isn’t working.
Appreciate freedom from oppression? Huh? They already have freedom. They have a higher standard of living than us. Better healthcare, infrastructure, and more the freedom to choose their own governments.
BTW what government oppression? Who is being oppressed besides the Russian citizens? Orban was ousted by a landslide vote from his own citizens. They didn’t buy the BS and the way he was running the country. They’ve had enough and they sent a pretty clear massage. Trump’s involvement with Orban’s re-election made it worse because Trump is toxic. Hungarians are not as stupid as Trump supporters made them out to be.