I hate the Atlantic (scroll by on principle) but this is a *story*

'fellow academics and foreign diplomats marvel at the doyen of Hungarian foreign policy who doesn’t speak Hungarian. But Pappin’s value is clear, and the government can hardly believe its luck—a flesh-and-blood member of the MAGA intelligentsia on its payroll. That’s part of the reason the stakes are so high in Hungary this election season, high enough that Vance will appear alongside Orbán during the final stretch of the campaign this week'

#usPol #Vance #trump #geopolitics #euPol #europe #wtaf

theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

The MAGA Intellectual Who Prophesied a Queen Melania

An ally of J. D. Vance who has dabbled in monarchism is now working for Viktor Orbán.

^{Isaac Stanley-Becker (The Atlantic)}