Tucker Carlson, Hungary, and the right’s embrace of authoritarianism - Vox

… Competitive authoritarian regimes survive, in part, by tricking their citizens — convincing enough of them that democracy is still alive to avoid an uprising. As such, Orbán claims his government is just a different kind of democracy — he calls it "illiberal democracy" or, alternatively, "Christian democracy" — that's being persecuted by Western liberals who hate its socially conservative governance...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/8/5/22607465/tucker-carlson-hungary-orban-authoritarianism-democracy-backsliding