Election law attorney Marc Elias dubbed Turley "Mike Lindell with tenure," which is funny, but always seemed a tad unfair. Turley's takes oscillate between ragebait cynicism and comical dullardry. Even his most conspiratorial takes " like swallowing hook, line, and sinker the wingnut theories about Hunter Biden's laptop " carried a faux intellectual energy, that separated him from the frothing conspiracy theory vibe that the MyPillow guy brings to everything. But that tenuous grip on reality seems to be slipping, as the professor delivers his contrarian love letter to the recently deposed Viktor Orban. Sure, Orban had ties to Putin and a reputation for "authoritarianism and corruption," Turley concedes, but the Hungarian prime minister formed the last firewall against "global governance," a term Turley invokes with all the tin foil, black helicopter baggage you'd expect from Alex Jones, not a GW Law professor.