DescriptionThe Syrian Refugee crisis, which began in 2010, has brought Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the forefront of global political news. It has revealed Hungarian political discourse is engulfed in a cyclical pattern of far-right nationalism fixated on the characteristics of ethnicity, religion, and political ideology. The emergence of these characteristics as defining traits on Hungarian nationalism indicates a failure to cope with past national trauma. This paper will delve into those traumas and analyze how past political leadership used those traumas. The paper will make a genealogy of the use of ethnicity, religion, and political ideology in figuring out how these topics are being used to persecute the Syrian Refugees.