III. The Landscape
Orbánism pointed towards what an organised right could look like.
Of course, it didn’t always succeed. Hungarian organisation was often sporadic, incomplete, lacking in a master-plan.
Equally, many have taken the baton and run with it. NatCon, ARC, Vanenburg — networks are forming. The vision is there.
So there is a thirst out there — a market has been made — but its fruits have so far been haphazard.
There is a growing market for think tanks...
Think tanks are both hip and necessary.
As intellectual infrastructure, and a way of doing politics, they have grown enormously over the past decade.
The think tank is becoming commercialised. People with a spare few million see it as a way to gain a power base, and influence the discourse.
Of course, those with less than a few million remain excluded from the market.
At the same time, most think tanks do a moderate-to-bad job of fulfilling their aims...