Leader of Hungarian Anti Semetic party finds out he's Jewish.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Hopefully he'll embrace his Jewish heritage. Also 'economic populism' sucks.

I actually agree with this, more or less. The bloke should make peace with his heritage one way or another without rejecting it as some kind of impurity. Then again, ethnicity is a construct and he is under no obligation whatsoever to identify as Jewish or embrace any aspects of the ethnic nation's culture(s), so I guess the only thing to relish here is the irony of the situation. As for the economic populism, I'm not fond of us vs. them mentalities and I feel the left actually betrays its egalitarian values when it regards economic elites in general with disgust, prejudice, or disdain (i.e. treats them as an inferior social group relative to the masses, 99%, or whatever).

     The article did indicate that he was embracing his Jewish heritage. Besides, I'm pretty sure that his former buddies won't accept him after this, regardless of how he reacts to it.

[Associate Justice PiT]

It was never 'economic populism' (however defined) that won elections, but the promise of something better. Not that that has anything to do with Hungary anyway, as tempting as I'm sure it must be to pronounce grandly (and presumably also very seriously) about 'the fate of Europe'.

     I find it humorous enough that someone had the notion that all of Europe must be regarded as one entity to which one strategy can be successfully applied. Who'd have thought that different issues resonate in different places?