The Orbán Playbook

Hungary’s “Illiberal Democracy” on the Rio Grande. Texas' Operation Lone Star is not Unique, It's Part of a Global Movement

A Texas Department of Public Safety officer patrolling the Rio Grande near Hidalgo, Texas, as part of Operation Lone Star in March 2021. (Photo by John Moore via Getty)

For almost three weeks in August, an encampment of asylum seekers in Matamoros, Mexico, came under aural assault by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Troopers stationed on the U.S. s…