“The press is the enemy, the press is the enemy, the press is the enemy. Write it on a blackboard a hundred times and never forget it!”
As suggested by this quote, attributed to Richard Nixon in response to the left-wing press of his era, debates about the media's political role are hardly new.
The media, the shaping of public discourse, is not merely a cultural matter. The media — especially when foreign-funded — is an issue of national security, defense policy, and sovereignty.
And sovereignty—like freedom—is an instinct. Together, they form a distinctly Hungarian instinct. Because for us Hungarians, the straitjacket forced upon us by surrounding empires has always felt unbearably tight. It does not suit us; we have no intention of returning to the cell. In fact, we’ve launched such a prison riot that sent the globalist elite ruling our civilization into trembling.
After all, Hungary’s history, for many centuries, has revolved around two closely linked core issues: how to preserve our freedom and how to protect our independence. And once again, we feel the familiar breath of the empire on our faces — just like so many times in the past centuries — only this time, the bad breath is coming from Brussels.
As I said, Hungarians are an instinctive people. We instinctively love our homeland, and we instinctively hate it when someone tries to deny us the right to do so. All the more so when they try to deny us the homeland itself. That, in essence, is the story of Hungarian history over the past thousand years: defending Europe from external invaders—and defending Hungary from European conquerors. That’s the real Hungarian success story, the true Hungarian miracle—the fact that each and every one of our former aggressors has been swallowed by the dustbin of history. That should serve as a warning sign for Brussels as well.
To the citizens of nations held captive by liberalism, the way we have lived in freedom is increasingly appealing: our cities are not terrorized by migrants, because we don’t let them cross our borders. We are not afraid to say that children are more important than the aggressive, insidious campaigns promoting an ever-expanding catalogue of gender deviations. And we dare to assert the conclusion born of a most basic instinct for survival: that peace is better than war.
Yet now, at the beginning of the 21st century, a new form of hegemony is trying to strip us of our freedom: a neoliberal empire composed of opaque, mafia-like networks and their communication tentacles. Because of its global reach, this is perhaps the most expansive power in world history—and also the most dangerous, precisely because of its elusive nature. It says a lot that this octopus has been able to use even the world’s most powerful country—the United States—and its deep state as a tool to achieve its business goals.
But we’re no longer alone in rebellion. In fact, at the start of this year, the strongest prisoner of the entire West broke free. Let’s be honest: it’s a lot easier to resist when the United States is not ruled by the most ruthless leftist-liberal tyrants, but by a president named Donald Trump. So profound is the shift in perspective on the struggle for our freedom that many now feel that the entire liberal penal colony is in ruins. Although that would be nice, reality isn’t a fairy tale, and I suggest we don’t lull ourselves into wishful thinking!