There are legitimate reasons to wonder if the train wreck that is Hungary’s Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) is finally back on track, following last weekend’s election of Gábor Fodor as party chairman. But there is at least one good reason for optimism: the insufferable, ubiquitous bearded Budapest intellectual-for-hire Gáspár Miklós Tamás has said he hasn’t quit hating on the party he helped found, and then left in a leftward lurch in December 2000.
As you may recall, last fall the man most clueless foreign grant administrators active in Hungary think epitomizes erudite liberalism made an appearance at the annual meeting of the far-far left Munkáspárt 2006 (Worker’s Party 2006) and announced he was actually a big red commie.
Now, according to Index.hu, “TGM” went on TV earlier today and said that despite Fodor’s urging of Liberal exiles like him to return to the fold, he “objects to the policy of the SZDSZ to around 103%.”
As you can probably sense, I really hate this guy. So the fact that he objects to the SZDSZ “to around 103%” makes me think the party deserves some support, at least around 3%.
