This is ridiculous. Finkelstein's main tactic was to label opponents as: "embarassingly liberal", "hopelessly liberal", "incurably liberal", "ludicrously liberal"... etc. Not sure how that translates into Hungarian, but it's not even an agenda, just a campaign tactic.
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ie. typical campaign consultant tactics
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... and in this context, that means what? They falsely smeared Soros, who is really a good guy, and a friend to all Hungarians?
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What I type now will maybe help the odd person who reads this. FTN is more an entertainment show than a serious attempt to understand anything. They copy & paste news articles into a stack of ‘prep’ and then give off-hand takes about it twice a week.
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If you take them too seriously, you end up believing ridiculous things, like incidental facts about campaign consultants that Orbán hired 10 years ago explains the better part of Hungarian right-wing politics.
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What’s more, this manic focus on connections between people, rather than what they actually portend, means you get a lot of this backwards, or just wrong. i.e., Orbán’s government lobbying the US becomes American campaigns consultants managing Orbán’s party.
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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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Anyway, you want to continue this, my DMs are open. Maybe there you'll be less focussed on performative gotcha moments and no longer feel the need to maintain the unwarranted confidence.
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