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The Washington Roundtable: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s requests for more aid from the United States got a frosty reception from many Republicans on the Hill this week. It\u2019s the most recent expression of the American far right\u2019s affinity for Vladimir Putin\u2019s project in Russia, and, more recently, for Viktor Orb\xe1n\u2019s consolidation of power in Hungary. The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins the Washington Roundtable to discuss his reporting on CPAC Hungary, where far-right political figures gathered in Budapest last year, and on why American conservatives are gravitating toward figures like Putin and Orb\xe1n. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a red-string-on-a-corkboard conspiracy theorist to see the connections,\u201d Marantz says. \u201cIn Florida, for example, Ron DeSantis\u2019s administration has admitted when they wrote the \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 bill, they were modelling it on a previous Hungarian law, which was itself modelled on a previous Russian law. So, no one\u2019s really entirely hiding the ball here.\u201d Marantz joins the staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos on this week\u2019s episode.