Professor Timothy Garton Ash was trying to fight his way through the crowd. He was told that the festive rally of the opposition coalition would be held at the mouth of Andrássy út, and when he saw the crowd, he thought for the first time that he had arrived at the scene. The only strange thing was that Viktor Orbán's voice was heard from the loudspeakers, and he saw no European flags anywhere. He didn't expect that.
Even though he doesn't understand Hungarian, he still thought he heard the showdown with Brussels, which he found outrageous, since this hybrid regime supports itself with Brussels' money. The crowd opened up to him peacefully, he got through the square, but he had to avoid the many buses parked in double rows, which were transporting Orbán's supporters to the mass event. He wouldn't have uttered the word peace march by accident.
The professor was relieved when he reached the other end of the avenue. Although the crowd here was much smaller, flags with golden stars and rainbows were waving here, and he finally got to see the man he had traveled to Budapest for. She found the tall, well-dressed, fluent in all languages, seen the world, man in full strength very sympathetic.
We finally have a real candidate who will vacate the electoral strategy of the Orbán regime, the devout Christian rural conservative mayor with seven children, who embodies everything that Viktor Orbán claims about himself. They took the wind out of the sails of the populist government party! He is the one with whom the opposition can have a realistic chance of winning in the spring, although the elections will certainly not be free and fair, Professor Ash believes.
He wrote about his experiences in Budapest for the British The Guardian, from where every media outlet that has something to do with it took it and distributed it. They are building a vassal Hungarian Prime Minister candidate that is pleasing to Brussels. I don't envy them, Márki-Zay is already the second or third candidate, whom they have to build up, bring to European public opinion, make known.
Let his picture be on the front pages, be talked about, it doesn't matter if he is the mayor of a small town in the Great Plains with an unpronounceable name! Although the city in its longer version (Hódmezővásárhely-Kutasipuszta) is a well-known place among the boomer generation. Boomers often think of Piroschka, they imagine us Hungarians as in that iconic film: simple, honest, hard-working servants.
In the spring of 2019, Hódmezővásárhely was an experimental laboratory in the world of international cooperation, not a spontaneous self-organization.
The model uses an unknown political figure, a sleeper agent , whom everyone believes to be an independent civilian when he enters the scene. The successful Hódmezővásárhely model was used not only in the 2019 municipal elections. The left-wing coalition has also become a successful model for defeating right-wing candidates who enjoy great support elsewhere in Europe. I just marvel and stare at this unprincipledness, how the parties voluntarily give up their identity in order to gain power, even though they are only reviving the political methods of the long-ago coalition days. Could it be that the goal is to build a Patriotic Globalist People's Front imbued with the zeitgeist?
Mayor Karácsony was built before Márki-Zay, the tall, thin, hyperpassive green candidate. The summer opinion polls still saw him as able to defeat Orbán. He seemed like a real potential candidate, a government critic, a green politician committed to Europe, a university person who is able to unite 99 percent of Hungary, including prominent intellectuals, against the privileged one percent. I don't know how this math worked out for the motley movement of a total of 40 percent. If the world knew the immeasurability of the Karácsony party, Márki-Zay's vulnerability to the self-interested parties of the coalition, the money-giving farmers would perhaps think about whether it is worth investing so much money in them.
There was a time when the leftist part of the world in Klára Dobrev the real challenger to the authoritarian Orbán. The progressive Western press combined everything beautiful and good about Ms. Klára. She is the one who, being a woman, is a true professional social democratic politician, who has leadership experience in public administration, the entrepreneurial sphere and European politics, and her Bulgarian origin is a direct advantage in the fight for a united Europe. He can handle verbal blows well, he is used to the brutal attacks that the Orbán regime inflicts on him and his family.
The Western political elite, let's call it the background power, has already tried all sorts of things to replace Viktor Orbán, who is in their way. Four years ago, for example, with a female candidate from the world of NGOs, if we remember Szél Bernadette. At that time, the co-chairman of the LMP believed that she would become Hungary's first female prime minister, she prepared for the competition with a wardrobe created from public funds and hundreds of thousands of hairdresser bills. Now you can barely recognize it, the unpainted, unpretentious NGO exterior is the new image. Even the Jobbik leader wearing a guard vest was tried by the internationalists , he was absolved of his far-right crimes, the Spinoza audience assisted him, the master of ceremonies was Ágnes Heller himself.
They could slowly realize that the majority of Hungarians will never vote for the left , no matter how many rainbow alliances they disguise themselves with. The historical experience of generations is too deep and painful for that. If, on the other hand, they recognized Viktor Orbán's popularity among Hungarians and did not contemptuously label his commitment to his nation as simple populism, if they tried to understand the reason for his popularity, then perhaps they would not try to interfere forever.
I wouldn't call the Hungarian Prime Minister a dictator, as they do in university lectures for educational purposes. I saw it myself, when the professor of a famous German university introduced the great dictators of our time to the students at the seminar on the rule of law versus dictatorship. In the company of Putin, Erdogan, and Bolsonaro, our prime minister won three times by two-thirds in our free elections. He is branded a populist, corrupt dictator because he is in the way of the globalists.
If one relies on the writings of Professor Ash, for example, it is easy to lose one's clarity. Because in them, his claims about Hungary are formulated as unquestionable facts, which rightfully upset the western citizen who wants to find out. How can the EU tolerate a country with a corrupt, illegal, illiberal and anti-democratic government as a member of the EU? he asks indignantly.
A member state that not only harms itself, but also threatens the functioning of the EU and the rule of law political system in general? The professor expects the impartial officials of the EU and the model state of liberal democracy, Germany, as well as the new German government, to finally raise their voices and defend Hungary in the cause of democracy! As a Hungarian, I ask who or what should we be protected from? From ourselves?
Timothy Garton Ash, Eastern European expert, professor of European studies at Oxford University, was chosen as one of the hundred most influential people in the world in 2005. If he says something, then he is considered the benchmark, both for Oxford and for his reputation. He educates young people interested in European studies. He writes about the rule of law and European values in the Western press, which is considered the norm. A reference base, although what and how he writes is pure left-liberal propaganda.
I can't decide whether the vocabulary used to slander Hungary, the argumentative technique of slander without facts, is his invention, and the Hungarian opposition, for example Márki-Zay, must also slander this, fighting to prevent anyone from questioning it, or vice versa, building from the bottom up at home , do they invent these well-known twists and turns from the world of Kádárism at the joint party meetings in order to pass them on to the comrades in Brussels?
In Márki-Zay's speeches and expressions, all this is regularly echoed, the stigmas taken from communist rhetoric, the vile attacks of the propaganda machine to discredit people, the incitement of hatred and the slippery, twisting technique. He talks a hole in people's stomachs, he's really the vacuum cleaner agent you buy the vacuum cleaner from so you can finally get rid of it. Added to this is the aggressive presentation style, the inability to communicate in line with the other person's words, and the increasingly visible personality disorder. Many people like it, quantifying the percentage, about two million Hungarians. This is already a social disease.
Author: Irén Rab
(Cover photo: Márki-Zay, the "politician of love" Source: mandiner)
