[pilsetnieks]

"Make Europe Great Again". Seriously, that is the new slogan for the Hungarian EU presidency.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...

[HeckFeck]

Connotations aside, using a well worn slogan 8 years later is uninspired. This makes it very ironic.

[kibwen]

> well worn slogan 8 years later is uninspired

Ironic considering that "Let's Make America Great Again" was Ronald Reagan's campaign slogan in 1980.

[3836293648]

Wasn't Thatcher the first?

And Make Britain Great Again is so much better than America/Europe/literally anything that doesn't have great in its name

[AnimalMuppet]

It's even more ironic when Trump uses it. Like, weren't you supposed to do that 8 years ago? What happened? You didn't do it? Why should we think you'll do it this time?

I mean, I guess it's become like a brand name. But if you think about it for a minute, it's carrying a subtext that Trump failed last time.

[kergonath]

It’s doublespeak. Orbán is not interested in making Europe or the EU any stronger, just in extracting as much as he can from it. He only cares about Hungary.

However, it is a signal (we cannot really talk of dog whistle here, it’s rather obvious) to other far-right parties with similar nationalist agenda that he’s on their side. So a better reading might be “make [individual countries in] Europe great again”.

[rebolek]

He only cares about himself, not Hungary.

[pilsetnieks]

I don't think there's that much thought involved, they're just aping their Republican heroes.

[Maken]

Orban never disappoints.