Item #1: local far-right youth party JOBBIK organised a paramilitary: the "Hungarian Guard". They managed to get an official permit, and have a legal constituting assembly on a public square, at which 55 guys appeared in black uniform with a fascist flag sewn into it. The parliamentary parties and the figurehead President reacted with theatrical and hypocritical political bickering. I got a distinct Weimar feeling.

Item #2: a year or two ago, János Zuschlag, then a young member of the governing Socialists, was taped to joke about the Holocaust to a friend -- at a Holocaust memorial service. He was then fired from the party, and one would have assumed that's the end of his political career. Instead, he is now back and has a leadership position in Budapest -- and is at the center of a corruption scandal: a clique of young Socialists awarded money to non-profit foundations in whose oversight boards they happen to sit, and a significant part of the handed-out money is unaccounted for. So far no consequence to anyone.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}