Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is extending his authoritarian playbook into Latin America. Using the Center for Fundamental Rights and Madrid as a hub, Orbán’s regime is forging ties with Vox, CPAC, and regional leaders like Argentina’s Javier Milei. The network promotes anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-gender policies, turning Latin America into a key front in the transnational far-right strategy.
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Heritage Foundation’s Kevin D. Roberts aims to institutionalize Trumpism with Project 2025, backed by 80+ far-right groups advocating Christian Nationalism, limiting women’s healthcare, and opposing LGBTQ+ rights.
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As Viktor Orbán’s influence network faces uncertainty in Hungary, the government-backed Danube Institute has quietly launched a U.S. nonprofit linked to former Heritage Foundation officials, MAGA-aligned intellectuals, and Christian nationalist figures. The move expands Orbán’s political infrastructure into the United States, embedding his network more deeply within the American conservative movement.
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Viktor Orbán’s fall shatters a 16-year far-right political machine and sends shockwaves through U.S.-aligned authoritarian-leaning networks that helped sustain him. As Peter Magyar and the Tisza Party take power, allies tied to MAGA and Fidesz respond with panic, or silence, exposing the fragility of a transatlantic authoritarian project.
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Viktor Orbán’s defeat is a key moment for Hungary and democracy globally. After years of backsliding, the vote shows authoritarian drift can be reversed. It opens the door to restoring rights for vulnerable communities and rebuilding independent institutions, while challenging the normalization of authoritarianism worldwide and signaling that even entrenched systems can be undone through democratic means.
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Over the past few years, Hungarian institutions funded by, and supportive of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s policies, have forged close working relationships with American far-right groups such as the Heritage Foundation and the conservative conclave, CPAC. What is less known is that Hungarians have also forged links with American anti-immigrant outfits established by John Tanton.
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At the CPAC Dallas event in August 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for Christian Nationalists in Europe and the United States to “unite forces,” because “we Hungarians know how to defeat the enemies of freedom on the political battlefield.”
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The foundation and its leaders see Trump not for his policies, but as a means to embed Orbán’s oppressive ideology within the U.S. political framework.
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It is incredibly telling that the Tennessee GOP would invite members of the Danube Institute, as it speaks to their intentions to turn Tennessee into a laboratory for autocracy.
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The U.S. has taken over leadership of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, reviving a Trump campaign against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights while Budapest begins dismantling key pillars of Viktor Orbán’s anti-rights infrastructure. The shift marks a symbolic reversal as Hungary distances itself from an international effort to roll back reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights, while Washington reasserts leadership of the global anti-abortion coalition.
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