Orbn's Hungary drove a top university campus into exile. JD Vance said it should be a model for the U.S.
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... Its limestone entrance rises above a grand 1820s mansion, its newer additions all hard modern lines and confidence. It has won architecture awards. It was built to suggest a certain kind of Hungary, too: outward-looking, liberal, at ease with the West.

Today it is eerily quiet. ...

Founded by George Soros after the fall of communism, the university says the authoritarian government of Viktor Orbn forced 90% of its teaching operations out of the country in 2019, leaving behind a stark symbol of how far the nation has moved during the prime minister's 16-year regime. ...

"The closest conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with the left-wing domination of universities is Viktor Orbn's approach in Hungary," Vance said in 2024, then a Republican senator from Ohio. "I think his way has to be the model for us " not to eliminate universities, but to give the choice between survival or taking a much less biased approach to teaching." ...