“Strategic thinking, thorough consideration, decision, action, stubborn persistence and perseverance; but above all, courage,” said Schmitt, describing Orbán’s “credo”.

The critics are dismayed because “precisely in their time of office it has been necessary to confront the fact that the West appears to have stalled after 300 years of continuous progress and growth,” the historian said. Whereas liberal democracy shows symptoms of crisis they seek to conceal, new power-centres have appeared which “dictate the pace and direction of their steps.”

The reason why the prime minister is attacked is because it is thought that his actions – of which there are followers abroad – create precedents.

It needs bravery to say that in the 21st century there is no significance to the traditional divisions of left and right. The viable parts of right and left must be rolled together if the conservative people’s party is to create modern valid policies amid new circumstances, Schmitt said.

Orbán turned his back of the “meaningless meta-language” of the West. “Instead, he invites his students to think because he thinks; he has questions for which he seeks answers,” she said, creating panic among western leaders “who are not politicians but political managers; rather than choosing between good and bad answers, they use the language of political correctness.”

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