(For the record, I'm not testing you, I'm curious how much a face tells of the person to strangers.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
Then all fifty-plus conservative men in politics are worried about keeping control?
No? Every single politician? Yep, I think you're right!
The party was a reincarnation of the party that won the first and last free elections after WWII (before the communist takeover), a socially conservative but economically redistributive party with the slogan "Bort, búzát, békességet!" = "Let there be wine, wheat, peacefulness" (hence the cutting of the bread at the election event). But it was soon hijacked and turned a single-person party by Torgyán.
If Tarlós is a black-belt populist, Torgyán was a grand master or even god. A privately highly intelligent attorney from the capital, he had a special gift to pretend to be a fiery rural simpleton, and work his (mostly truly rural simpleton) audience into a frenzy. His remembered wisecracks are innumerable (called "torgyániáda"). He was also very vain, with a funny sense of dres code and hairdo.
For about a year in the 1994-1998 period, his party even led opinion polls... then with growing scandals of his party, which also caused it to multiply by cell division, he fell back. Still he could join Fidesz's government in 1998. But Orbán was even more gifted at demagoguery and intrigue than him: he let Torgyán sink in some corruption affairs, and finished off his party by accelerating the cell division.
Being unable to live without publicity, a year or two ago, Torgyán resurfaced -- as permanent talk show guest... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
