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The lesson of Hungary is this: We cannot claim to care about democracy only when it costs nothing. President Trump, like Mr. Orban, no doubt believes that everyone can be bought. America’s elites are proving him right. There is a Hungarian phrase I heard often: “Van az a penz” — “There’s always a price.”

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here | nytimes.com

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This a comment regarding the article below.

What most AMERICANS fail to realize is given PROJECT 2025, and Stephen Miller’s outrageously racist ideology and penchant to hate anyone who is non-white - it will only be a matter of time before he runs out of “illegal immigrants” and starts going after American citizens of color to fill all of the Gulags he is currently building across the U.S.

This is not mere hyperbole.

Unfortunately, this is fact.

And it has already begun.

Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People

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Efforts to undermine King’s platform are not new, and are often aimed at sanitizing his message, which in his later years included an economic- and social-justice agenda that drew the ire of the U.S. government. But the prospect of generating scandalous headlines around King in 2025 would do more than distract—it stands to provide new and useful propaganda to America’s enemies.

Perhaps the bigger lesson from Trump’s latest gambit is this: King remains a global giant that stops the world in its tracks when he speaks, even if against his wishes or without his consent. It was this way when he pushed for civil rights and voting rights, and later against the war in Vietnam and against systemic inequalities. It was this way at the time of his assassination in Memphis, where he was offering support to striking sanitation workers. And it continues to be that way, as the Trump administration, backed into a corner, has little qualms with potentially undermining King’s legacy.

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