Almost half of Hungary’s citizens find membership in the European Union, whose liberal values Orbán mocks, unnecessary. And more than 70% of Turks have a negative view of the US, which Erdoğan blames for the rise of social media (the “worst menace” facing Turkey today – trumping, it seems, even the Islamic State’s deadly attacks in Turkish cities).
民众似乎也愿意买账。至少有70%的俄罗斯人认同普京的说法，即这种“管理民主”优于一片混乱的西方。几乎半数的匈牙利民众认为欧盟成员国资格（其自由价值观遭到欧尔班的嘲笑）没有必要。超过70%的土耳其人敌视美国，埃尔多安指责后者是社交媒体崛起的始作俑者（社交媒体是土耳其今天面临的“最大威胁”——甚至似乎比伊斯兰国在土耳其城市发动的致命袭击威胁更大）。