Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , Link , [NEW: Why did @Mike_Pence spend last week in Budapest schmoozing with a sanctioned genocide denier?]...[All told, Pence’s Budapest visit was further confirmation of the Trumpist GOP’s increasing willingness to side with entrenching autocrats in the region, and with the authoritarians who found common cause in Trump—even while those same anti-democratic forces routinely remain among the most pro-Chinese and pro-Russian elements in the region.