I found Budapest disappointing; it feels less like a real city than Istanbul or the Spanish cities or most other East Euro capitals; it's like another Tourist Destination. It is completely a tame and harmless atmosphere, and I saw not a single example of nationalist mobilization.

Not sure what I was expecting...certainly not uniformed rallies of shirtless bravos with threatening banners, like BHL-type hysteroids make you believe. But SOME instance of political energy or awakening I thought...and there was none! (photo: Soviet gym teachers march)

By contrast if you go to Basque country or some other left-ethnonationalist place you will see possibly on the first day separatist, nationalist and other similar rallies. Not in Budapest though: I found a people who wanted to enjoy normalcy, enjoy nightlife, shopping...

Budapest men are not beaten down, far from it, but they don't walk owning the streets like you see even in Tokyo; the wimin are empowered, daily life is designed to cater to them: everything clean, safe, well-run. No political ferment. Of course this is because they WON...

Whatever the liars of The Atlantic tell you, Orban enjoys 70% approval, possibly higher. There's no discontent or mobilization in Budapest because the people feel they won, that they've secured conditions for a normal life. But I believe this is same mistake made under Thatcher.

Arguably Reagan and Thatcher reforms didn't last because they failed to change education system; I don't know what Orban's plans for this are. Even so a change in education, if real, must lead to a change in way of life. Most important element of this is w*m*n question...

Japan is a place that has all the diseases and vices of modern city that traditionalists and conservatives look down on, except for one: the men, though maybe subservient in the home, own the streets. F*min*sm has no power. And so they've managed to preserve their nation...

Whether it is the education or something else or disempowering globalist elites within one's nation, it's clear that the center-right Thatcherite solution lasts at most a generation: in that softness and mildness is an empty space where globopozz flows in...Hungary too soft

Any other nationalist leader should hope to be as successful as Orban. Just must remember that in long run its not enough... But point is it's absurd to call Budapest fascist. As in case of Moscow they're counting on their audience never having visited. It is liberal & mild

Remember how they compare Putin to Kim, call Russia totalitarian, contrive a panic about supposed concentration camps for inverts...when in fact Moscow is another liberal wine bar place with a vibrant ghey scene. Brazenness of lie becomes clear when consider ease of travel

This isn't a Soviet situation where you had minders; many travel there for business or academic conference; Russia not a closed barracks state where you can't get reports of daily life. But the bigger and more brazen the lie, the more attractive to the modern propagandist...