I have lived in Budapest for most of the last five years and traveled extensively throughout Western Europe in that time. Over and over again in my travels, I face Europeans demanding that I justify the policies of that ‘monster,’ Viktor Orbán. To be fair, they are under no obligation to support Orbán and his Fidesz party, but it would be nice if these critics had any idea what they were talking about. They usually don’t—especially when it comes to migration.
Long ago, I concluded that these Europeans, including British bien-pensants, have to scapegoat Orbán to escape blame for the messes they have made in their own countries via mass migration. I always invite them to Budapest to see for themselves what it is like to live in a safe, well-ordered city—one that achieves that not by heavy policing, but because it is not home to a population that is internally lawless and that hates the culture that has taken them in.
