German and European Studies academic Alexander Clarkson has said that Orban's Hungary has a lot in common with Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall, not least in that the survival of Orban's rule is partly down to his willingness to play ball on Union-wide issues with "respectable" political blocs elsewhere: https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1135860806141325312 https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1135860966359543808 https://twitter.com/APHClarkson/status/1023633401105010688 .