Please explain this to me like I'm five: Why aren't more people angry about Orban?

[Initech]

The guy is a fucking Nazi. The fact that the GOP is openly embracing him as a role model for a white supremacist nation is scary as all hell. Trump has even floated the idea of cities being run by the National Guard and went so far as suggesting bringing back concentration camps. We should be marching in the streets now that he's here on US soil. So why aren't we?

[Funtatlaguy]

1. Because there is so much stuff to be outraged by

that it’s hard to keep up and prioritize your rage and your focus about these horrible human beings.
They continue to make it clear that ending our democracy is their goal and to replace it with an Aristocratic white Christian theocracy.

[temporary311]

5. I suspect if you asked the average american about Hungary,

most would say no thanks, I just ate.

edit: meant to reply to OP

[Funtatlaguy]

6. Absolutely. Most Americans couldn't find their bungholes on a map...

much less any other country.

[brooklynite]

2. Answer to a five-year old:

He’s Hungarian. He’s in Hungary. Other than Trump fans, nobody here cares about what he does. If they did, there’d be a long list of other authoritarian leads to be upset at.

[inthewind21]

9. Actually

He's in Dallas Texas at C-PAC

And Roe is settled law! We don't need to think about that.

[brooklynite]

23. Yes. I know he's visiting.

Doesn’t mean anyone should about him, any more than the other. C PAC speakers.

[uponit7771]

3. Because GQP has a messaging infrastructure that allows them to do any damn thing they want

[Funtatlaguy]

7. Ding ding 🛎...winner winner...chicken dinner.

[Initech]

15. What bugs me is that they are going full Nazi if they get back into power.

These are people who cheer on things like martial law and public executions. It's truly sick, disgusting and disturbing.

[uponit7771]

24. +1,

[onetexan]

26. Yup & theyre not hiding that fact of their embrace of nazis

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

4. Because 95% of the public have no idea who he is

Or care who he is.

[TheBeam19]

8. Most people in this country can't name their own

member of Congress. They’re never going to care about the dictator of Hungary.

[Initech]

14. Certainly true!

Not going to dispute that one.

[Progressive dog]

10. Unfortunately there are many national leaders

that are worse and much more dangerous to us.

[Baked Potato]

11. To me, Orban is a side show who is probably being monitored.

To RWers, I suppose he is hope for a great European uprising of white folk.

To “Regular, sane Republicans,” I think they tolerate literally anyone who may vote for them and they look the other way so as not to lose nary a single potential voter.

[ellie]

12. I am extremely

upset about Orban. Fuck him. He called me and my family animals as we are half Roma. I can't say what I want to happen to him but it's not good.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Because Republican turned Nazi over a decade or more, so Americans are numb to it

It's Trump, de Santis (he's removed a district attorney today, for saying he wouldn't prosecute people who gave support to transgender children), Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Stephen Miller, Marjorie Taylor Greene and more who are the American Nazis.

[Oneironaut]

16. The Republican Party was usurped by Nazis.

The W. Bush wing of the party is now politically homeless or vassalized. They have no power anymore.

The main leaders in the current GOP are Nazis. No hyperbole. They want Fascism and admire other fascists. They also want you dead.

As contemptible as Bush supporters were, they’re now prisoners in a psychotic death cult. We can squabble with them later, but, first they need to be set free of people who literally want to commit genocide against Americans and cancel our elections.

[Novara]

17. You should rephrase that.

I'm not angry about Orban; I'm angry about the GQP's enthusiastic embrace of a piece of shit Nazi.

Hell, I'm not even angry. It's expected of them. I'm just disgusted.

[Initech]

18. I couldn't fit that many words into the subject header.

But I do agree 100%!

[Novara]

20. Understood.

Gosh, I'm old enough to remember than an embrace of Nazis meant your days in public life were over.

[Voltaire2]

19. A better question is why the big media outlets

continue to act as if the republican party turning overtly fascist is normal.

[Novara]

21. That too.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Outrage bandwidth is finite for most people.

One has to pick their hills.

[Sky Jewels]

25. Can you imagine the outrage if Obama or Biden embraced some crazy

extremist authoritarian nutbag leader of a "foreign" country and had him speak at official Democratic events?

My only hope is that these efforts are the last gasps of the Great White Right Wing Dying Dinosaurs.

[Initech]

27. Oh they would have impeached, indicted, imprisoned and popped the champagne by now.

George Carlin was right - it's a big club and we're not in it.