This week Jon Atack and Sam Atack joined me to discuss their new videos series Think Like a Cult Leader. Jon and Sam described how their criteria for being a “successful cult leader” matches up with so many people currently in positions of power today. We also talked about Sam’s prank creation his own cult […]
Many people are feigning shock at the fact that Hungary’s centre right (some would say solid right) populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become a friend of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Far from shocking or aberrational, this development is fully in line with the last several decades of Israeli propaganda. In short, Israel has pivoted its national brand to seduce the western right, against the western right’s own interests, while turning Israel’s old ally on the left against itself.
