Who Will Create a New European Culture of Debate?
Pilsudski died in 1935. I think you meant Roman Dmowski rather than Sikorsky. Dmowski was a civilian politician not a general. Kaczynski is Dmowski's heir.
Michael Burleigh, a senior fellow at LSE Ideas, is the author, most recently, of Populism: Before and After the Pandemic (Hurst 2021).
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While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.