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In this dissertation, I mobilize a constructivist—affective conception of populism in order to ask the question: how does the Orbán-regime attempt to construct a political camp identity? I analyze the government’s responses to a 2018 verdict by the Curia (the Supreme Court of Hungary) which ordered the state to pay those Roma students who had been educated in a segregated school in the town of Gyöngyöspata. I use discourse-historical analysis, a subset of critical discourse analysis, to link this discourse to historically specific political struggles and broader political cleavages in Hungary. I argue that the Orbán-regime, utilizing the affective repertoire of populism, rearticulates already-existing political and racialized cleavages in the discourse analyzed, thereby reconstituting the collective identity embodied by ʻthe people’ as well as ʻthe enemy’. 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