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- Title
Border-making as illiberal politics: Examples from Orban's Hungary and Trump's America.
- Authors
Scott, James Wesley
- Abstract
Radical Right-wing populism frequently involves 'divide and rule' strategies as a means to attain and consolidate political power. In the cases of Viktor Orban's political regime in Hungary and Donald Trump's four-year presidency (and its aftermath), we find a pronounced attempt to create narrative hegemony of a sense of nation built upon Christian civilization and foundationalist understandings of national identity. Moreover, both cases reveal processes of social border-making that are reflected in norming and the creation of distinctions based on degrees of national authenticity. Applying an ontological security and critical borders studies approach, this paper will specifically focus on the different ways in which border-making processes, or bordering, are implicated in the exercise of illiberal political power in the Hungarian and US cases. Despite many similarities, the actual mobilization of popular support reflects local conditions and has resulted in rather different political outcomes.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; AMERICA; RIGHT-wing extremism; ORBAN, Viktor, 1963-; TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; RIGHT-wing populism; POWER (Social sciences); ONTOLOGICAL security; SOCIAL processes; CHRISTIAN identity
- Publication
Journal of Language & Politics, 2024, Vol 23, Issue 3, p416
- ISSN
1569-2159
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jlp.23089.sco