In The Epoch Times, Dalrymple reflects on the recent Hungarian election and Viktor Orbán’s removal from power after sixteen years. He argues that the European Union’s attitude to mass immigration is profoundly contradictory—treating immigrants as mere economic inputs while simultaneously acknowledging the burdens they may bring—and that Hungary’s resistance to this was prudent rather than xenophobic.
To speak of immigrants as immigrants, and as nothing else but immigrants, as if the fact of their immigration is the only significant thing about them, reveals such a lack of interest in immigrants as people that it is almost chilling in its inhumanity. It is also condescending.