Opinion | Trump's GOP Embraces Orban's Racist Eugenics

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Opinion | Trump's GOP Embraces Orban's Racist Eugenics
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'Along with Trump’s big Lie,' the white nationalist racism expressed by Orban, 'defines today’s Republican Party.'

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed a crowd of thousands of American admirers in Dallas, Texas on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference . Orban described Hungary and America as “twin fronts” in a struggle against globalists, progressives, communists, and “fake news.”

[We] do not want to become peoples of mixed-race. This is why we fought at Nándorfehérvár/Belgrade, this is why we stopped the Turks at Vienna, and – if I am not mistaken – this is why, in still older times – the French stopped the Arabs at Poitiers. Eugenics was popular at the turn of the last century. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton — supposedly as a method to improve the human race — it called for arranging reproduction within the human population to increase characteristics regarded as desirable and minimize the undesirable. After the adoption of eugenics by the Nazis to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups, eugenics was discredited as unscientific and racially motivated.

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