# Global New Right Network The international infrastructure connecting American MAGA populism, European far-right movements, and Latin American authoritarian-populists into what Javier Milei explicitly called "a right-wing international." This is not a formal organization but a network of conferences, media exchanges, personnel circulation, shared narratives, financial flows, and institutional relationships that allow the new right to operate as a transnational movement while maintaining the nationalist branding that each country's version requires. ## The Infrastructure ### CPAC International The Conservative Political Action Conference has become the primary venue for global new right networking: | CPAC Location | Year(s) | Significance | |--------------|---------|--------------| | **Budapest** | 2022–2026 | Annual; Orbán keynoted; 667 foreign guests from 51 countries (2026); post-election revelations that Hungary was paying CPAC to host | | **Buenos Aires** | 2024 | Elevated Milei; Bannon called Argentina "tip of the spear" | | **Dallas/DC** | Annual | Orbán, Meloni allies, Farage as regular speakers | | **Other** | Various | CPAC Japan, CPAC Australia, CPAC Mexico — franchise model expanding | CPAC's international expansion created the conference circuit that allows leaders, operatives, and donors from different countries to meet, coordinate, and import each other's strategies. ### NatCon Conferences The [[Edmund Burke Foundation]]'s National Conservatism conferences provide the **intellectual** infrastructure — more elite, more ideological than CPAC: - NatCon DC, Orlando, Miami (US editions) — Thiel, Vance, Hawley - NatCon Brussels (2022) — Orbán headlined, transatlantic expansion - NatCon London (2023) — [[Suella Braverman]], UK integration - NatCon Rome — Meloni orbit Where CPAC is the rally, NatCon is the seminar. Together they form a two-tier system: CPAC for mass politics, NatCon for elite intellectual coordination. ### The Danube Institute (Budapest) Hungary's Danube Institute functioned as a permanent intellectual hub, funded through government-aligned channels, hosting American speakers and framing national conservatism as the defense of Christian Europe. It provided the year-round connective tissue between CPAC/NatCon events. ### Bannon's "The Movement" Steve Bannon's 2018 attempt to create a formal pan-European populist organization based in Brussels. The Movement largely failed as an institution — European leaders viewed Bannon as an American interloper — but it succeeded in establishing personal relationships and communication channels that persist informally. Bannon's *War Room* podcast continues to function as an international clearinghouse for new right media coordination. ## The Shared Playbook Despite different national contexts, the global new right operates from a remarkably consistent set of political technologies: ### Narrative Weapons | Narrative | Origin | Global Adoption | |-----------|--------|-----------------| | **Great Replacement** | French writer [[Renaud Camus]] (2011) | AfD "remigration," MAGA immigration panic, Orbán's anti-migration campaigns | | **Anti-Soros** | Orbán's Hungary (2015+) | Adopted by Trump orbit, Bolsonaro, European parties | | **Stop the Steal** | Trump/Bannon (2020) | Bolsonaro's January 8, Le Pen's claims, election denial template | | **Anti-woke** | American culture war | Exported to UK (Reform UK), France (Le Pen), Argentina (Milei) | | **Christian civilization under threat** | Multiple origins | Orbán, Meloni, Bolsonaro evangelical coalition, American Christian nationalism | ### Institutional Strategies | Strategy | Template Source | Adoptions | |----------|---------------|-----------| | **Constitutional/institutional capture** | Orbán/Fidesz (2010+) | Studied by Heritage Foundation ([[Project 2025]]), Claremont | | **Media capture through oligarch proxies** | Orbán's KESMA model | Studied but not replicated in US/UK | | **De-demonization** | Le Pen (2011+) | Meloni's pragmatic pivot, AfD's Weidel | | **Donor summit coordination** | Koch model (2003+) | [[Rockbridge Network]], NatCon conferences | | **Insurrection as political tool** | January 6 (2021) | Bolsonaro's January 8 (2023), shared template | ## Personnel Circulation The network is held together by individuals who move between national contexts: - **Steve Bannon**: Trump campaign → White House → Budapest speeches → Bolsonaro advisory → War Room international → CPAC circuit - **[[Tucker Carlson]]**: Fox News → Budapest broadcasts → Orbán interviews → independent media platform with global reach - **Heritage Foundation delegations**: Regular visits to Budapest to study the Orbán model - **[[Yoram Hazony]] / Edmund Burke Foundation**: Israeli-American intellectual operating NatCon conferences across US and Europe - **Trump-aligned lobbyists**: Project 2025 frameworks being adapted for UK politics ("Project 2029" for Reform UK) ## Financial Flows The financial dimension is the least transparent and most consequential: - **Hungary paying CPAC**: Post-2026 election revelations confirmed Hungarian government funds subsidized CPAC Budapest — converting what appeared to be organic American conservative enthusiasm into a state-funded influence operation - **Russian loans to European parties**: Le Pen's €9.4M from a Russian-linked bank; AfD figures investigated for Russian/Chinese connections - **Tech oligarch intervention**: Musk endorsing AfD, considering $100M to Reform UK, hosting Weidel on X - **American donor networks**: Conservative philanthropic infrastructure (DonorsTrust, Heritage, etc.) increasingly international in scope ## The Varieties of New Right The global new right is not monolithic. The leaders in this network represent at least four distinct models: | Model | Representative | Key Feature | |-------|---------------|-------------| | **Illiberal state capture** | Orbán (Hungary) | Use democratic majority to entrench one-party control | | **Pragmatic far right** | Meloni (Italy) | Govern competently from the far right, moderate selectively | | **De-demonized nationalism** | Le Pen (France) | Rebrand fascist-heritage party for mainstream electability | | **Libertarian populism** | Milei (Argentina) | Chainsaw the state rather than capture it | | **Sovereignty populism** | Farage (UK) | Single-issue insurgency (Brexit) expanded to full platform | | **Insurrectionist** | Bolsonaro (Brazil) | Follow Stop the Steal to its logical conclusion | These models compete as much as they cooperate — Meloni's pragmatism is implicitly a critique of Orbán's confrontationalism; Milei's libertarianism contradicts Orbán's statism. But the network functions because each leader validates the others' legitimacy and provides strategic lessons, regardless of ideological differences. ## The Orbán Defeat and What It Means The April 2026 Hungarian election — where Orbán's 16-year illiberal project was decisively rejected — is the most significant event in the global new right's recent history. It demonstrates that: 1. **Institutional capture is not irreversible** — even in a system designed to entrench one-party control, elections can still produce regime change if opposition consolidates 2. **Corruption is the vulnerability** — the illiberal model depends on oligarchic patronage, which generates the corruption that eventually drives defection 3. **The model's international sponsors are exposed** — CPAC payments, Danube Institute funding, and other arrangements revealed after the transition show the manufactured nature of the "organic" conservative enthusiasm for Hungary Whether the global new right draws the correct lesson (the model has limits) or the wrong one (Orbán didn't go far enough) remains to be seen. ## Analytical Framework The Global New Right Network is the **international dimension** of the same power structures documented domestically in this KB. The Unholy Alliance, the dark money ecosystem, the defense tech pipeline, the media ecosystem — all of these have international extensions. CPAC Budapest connects to Heritage Foundation connects to Project 2025 connects to NatCon conferences connects to Orbán's governance model. The personnel (Bannon, Tucker, Heritage delegations) circulate between domestic and international nodes. The financial flows (Russian loans, Musk interventions, CPAC payments) cross borders. Understanding the international new right is essential to understanding the American new right, because the American movement is not domestic — it is one node in a transnational network that imports strategies (Orbán → Heritage), exports templates (Stop the Steal → Bolsonaro), and coordinates through shared infrastructure (CPAC, NatCon, media platforms) that operates above the national level. ## See Also - [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] — NatCon conference infrastructure - [[National Conservatism]] — Ideological framework - [[Viktor Orbán]] — Illiberal democracy model - [[Giorgia Meloni]] — Pragmatic far-right model - [[Marine Le Pen]] — De-demonization model - [[Nigel Farage]] — Transatlantic bridge - [[Jair Bolsonaro]] — Insurrection model - [[Javier Milei]] — Libertarian-populist model - [[AfD]] — German far-right, Musk intervention - [[Fidesz]] — Orbán's party machine - [[Steve Bannon]] — Network builder - [[The Unholy Alliance]] — Domestic coalition parallel - [[Great Replacement Theory]] — Shared narrative weapon - [[Russia]] — Russian financial connections to European far right