Yet if you were talking to the Goodwin of 2014, the young academic in a hurry, who wrote densely researched books on the BNP and Ukip, you would have a few follow-up questions, like: how exactly does one measure self-loathing at a national level? Some kind of poll, I would guess, but it’s unclear how you’d pose the question (“do you, considering yourself a part of Hungary, hate that self and by extension, hate Hungary? No? Great news!”). You’d want to know this wasn’t bare assertion, you’d want to know its methodology.