Practise What You Preach: Contradictions of the Orbán Regime and Implications to Intragroup Dynamics

Abstract

This blog post raises questions about radicalization in Hungary, rather than answers them. As discussed in our latest report (D3.1), the polarization of society between communists and non-communists, citizens and non-citizens, Christians and non-Christians, and straight and gay constitutes the bedrock of the Orbán regime. In other words, enemy construction, in- and outgroup formation are essential to the stability of the political system created by the Hungarian PM. However, if we look closer, the picture is not as black and white as one might imagine...