The opposition and its court consist of half-knowledged, narrow-minded elite groups, political consultant Tamás Péter writes on Index.
"Innumerable public and political debates took place after the 2022, but also after the 2018 elections, regarding whether the failure of the opposition can be attributed to the fact that the field is strongly in favor of the Orbáns, or whether the opposition is fundamentally incompetent.
Even worse than lack of talent, however, is the laziness, self-belief and arrogance that characterizes the opposition and its intellectual moon court. In the 13th year of NER, opposition politicians, media personalities, analysts and wits with zero political achievements continue to play their role as if they see the light at the end of the tunnel and are potential candidates for political power.
This hubris of the opposition is strange, since the opposition and its inner circle mostly consist of half-knowledged, narrow-minded elite groups who, in recent years, have not even thought of educating themselves in terms of political knowledge or power techniques.
In the meantime, think tanks, political consultants, and background people connected to Fidesz have continuously followed the international trends of politics in the past decade, Századvég, MCC and other political workshops permanently imported political knowledge from the United States and other Western countries in the form of books, publications, and events.
In the political thinking of the opposition, politics still works based on the rules and mechanisms of liberal democracy, they do not understand that the essence of NER is power politics without morality. The system is based on the work of ideologues and theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Tilo Schabert, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci or Niccolo Machiavelli. If one wants to be politically successful in this world, one should, among other things, study and implement the works of these authors, rather than whining about some kind of downward trajectory or the exercise of authoritarian power (...).
Viktor Orbán and his governing elite are not at all afraid of the Hungarian opposition, but they are afraid of the emergence of a world political situation, as a result of which one of the great powers will intervene more seriously in Hungarian domestic politics.
Although not for the time being from a distant superpower, we can already witness external intervention, as Brussels is withholding the resources of the recovery fund as well as cohesion funds for the purpose of exerting pressure."
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