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"Poland Just Sent an Ominous Signal to the World"

JD_co
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/opinion/poland-election-nawrocki.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.MxYz.tR4D1tlAJDqz&smid=re-nytopinion

"On Sunday MAGA won in Poland. After voters rejected Trumpist candidates in recent elections in Canada, Australia and Romania — enough to suggest an international anti-Trump bump — Polish voters went the other way. Mr. Nawrocki, a conservative historian and a former boxer, narrowly defeated Rafal Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, who was backed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk in a runoff election. Just two short years after electing Mr. Tusk, Poland has once again swung right. Like the U.S. election in 2024, it was a bruising reminder that populism is resilient and sticky, and that liberal democracy has yet to find a reliable formula to defeat it."

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  • CrashCrash
    Just two short years after electing Mr. Tusk, Poland has once again swung right.

    The intelligence and purview of Polish voters is no better than too many Americans'. Remember the moonshot years? We used to do gawd-awful spectacular things. Now, the whole apparatus is being deliberately dismantled.
  • Sven
    The swing towards the far-right is disturbing in Europe. Poland is part of NATO and this clouds their alliance.

    Netherlands is in a similar situation. Common theme is directed toward the immigrants as the scapegoat. Have we seen this before prior to WWII ?
  • Sven
    The swing towards the far-right is disturbing in Europe. Poland is part of NATO and this clouds their alliance.

    Netherlands is in a similar situation. Common theme is directed toward the immigrants as the scapegoat. Have we seen this before prior to WWII ?
  • catch22catch22
    Hi @JD_co Thank you.

    Yes, ominous.
    - Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed on Monday, delivering a big blow to the centrist government's efforts to cement Warsaw's pro-European orientation.
    In a victory for European conservatives inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, Nawrocki secured 50.89% of the vote, election commission data showed
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