"Western civilization" faces "cultural suicide," Republican lawmaker Steve King says

King has a long history of making disparaging statements about immigrants while serving up nostalgia for a significantly whiter America. Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, has been called a dictator and a despot. To many in Western Europe, his vision of an “illiberal new state based on national foundations” will turn Hungary away from Germany and France, toward Turkey and Russia. Orbán’s efforts to keep out asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere, to malign them wholesale as “poison,” have led to charges of xenophobia. An ongoing campaign against American financier George Soros has stoked fears of a recrudescent anti-Semitism.