The Five Lessons of Populist Rule
Mainstream political parties and leaders are at an obvious disadvantage in an environment where tawdriness is evidence of credibility, while tolerance, truth, and reason are the badges of a traitorous elite. Indeed, anti-populist forces are losing because they refuse to behave like their opponents.
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WARSAW – Jarosław Kaczyński, Poland’s de facto leader, has become, next to Donald Trump, an avatar of the populist threat to the Western democratic model. As we await Trump’s inauguration as US president on January 20, it is worth pondering the first year of populist rule in Poland. The results have run contrary to expectations.