GOP Elite Search for a Nation to Love

Jamelle Bouie: “Whatever its source, conservative defenses of, and even affectation for, foreign autocracies — of which enthusiasm for Orban’s Hungary is only the latest example — is too consistent to ignore.”

“At this moment in American life, it’s conservatives who have set their sights abroad. Parts of the movement have even adopted a kind of anti-Americanism, a contempt for the United States as it exists. These conservatives still call themselves ‘patriots’ — and disdain their opponents as ‘traitors’ — but theirs is an abstract loyalty to an idealized country.”