When politicians hire campaign consultants, they are not managed by them. That hardline European nationalist parties have their most popular positions co-opted by centre-right parties & lose ground to them, is not a phenomenon we need Republican campaign consultants to explain
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And what you do here. Why must we decide between these two (not even mutually exclusive) hypotheses? I can imagine about fifty others, I’m sure you can too. https://t.co/3La1DMJYpi
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But at base, your problem is that you are trying to build a *theory of European nationalist politics* on the back of miscellaneous contextless information about campaign consultants.
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In its original form, you’ll note “Finkelthink” was a far more coherent theory. It was about how evil American Republicans helped Orbán smear Soros as a campaign tactic. For this they had information provided by the campaign consultant Birnbaum.
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None of this translates into actual policies. But it sounds good to an audience of Americans who have very little understanding of Hungarian politics or the broader political environment of Europe.
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