WHEN POLITICAL ECONOMIST Gábor Scheiring was elected to the Hungarian
National Assembly in 2010 — serving until 2014 as a member of the
“Dialogue for Hungary” opposition green party — his father, a retired
worker at the United Electrical Machinery factory in Budapest’s
industrial periphery, was happy and proud to see his son on television.
But he always turned down the volume when Scheiring spoke. “[W]hat I
said irritated him,” Scheiring writes of his late father. “When it came
to politics, we had only one thing in common: he often declared that he
would vote for a decent social democratic party if there were any.”
Since there weren’t, Scheiring’s father was left with the center-right
Hungarian Democratic Forum and then, later, Viktor Orbán’s far-right
nationalist Hungarian Alliance party, Fidesz.
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