Providing insight in political reality and morale beyond increasingly illiberal
governments in CEE, this paper offers an ethnographic perspective on democratic opposition
during the process of de-democratisation. Analysing the motivation and purpose of being
politically active based on a limited group of members of the Hungarian Momentum
Movement Party, it highlights how relating to past, present and future as well as other
Hungarian parties and the West they strive to realise a ‘21st century European normality’.
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