The battle for Poland isn’t over Traditional values aren’t welcome in Brussels

Sometime in the Twenties, Józef Piłsudski quipped that the “most beloved state” of the Polish people is indecision. Almost exactly a century on, the modern nation’s founding father has never been more right, with last week’s presidential election resulting in an almost literal dead heat. Though the conservative Karol Nawrocki finally carried the day, the populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) candidate only defeated Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw, by just 1.78% of the vote, with less than 370,000 ballots separating the two men in a country of 37 million.

Since Nawrocki’s win, commentators of all stripes have been eager to pigeonhole the election as a win for Russia, as the MAGA-fication of Poland, or as the nail in the coffin of Poland’s warm relationship with Ukraine. In truth, it’s none of those things — politics here is never so simple.

...Caught between a future at the heart of the EU, and the familiar, reassuring hearth of traditional Catholic values, Poland is scrabbling for its future, even as it faces the old security challenges Piłsudski knew so well.

Civic Coalition has had to adapt too. Despite his reputation as an urban progressive, Trzaskowki ran a more conservative campaign than expected

Tusk is also flexing his conservative muscles on the European stage, for instance rallying against the Green Deal earlier this year by framing it as a threat to European competitiveness. In a testament to how much Poland has moved the needle on the continent, meanwhile, many other countries are now following Tusk’s lead.

The seeds of Poland’s modern-day dualism were sown long before Donald Tusk, the country’s embattled centrist prime minister, took power in 2023. Rather, they stretch back to the twilight days of communist rule.

Actually it goes much further back than that.

After the defeat of various insurrections in the 19th century, Polish political sentiment split into two parts, hardline Catholic nationalists (which in broad terms included the agrarian parties) and cosmopolitan groups such as Pilsudski's "socialist" PPS.

While it is true that Civic Platform has moved to the right to attract voters, it's also true that the EU elite (like that in the US) has moved far to the left on "green" and tranny lunacy, which is forcing Civic Platform to the "right" even as it stands still. The EU has also blatantly interfered with Poland's internal politics, banning funding under PiS because of the supposed legal changes that compromised Poland's courts but then releasing the money under Civic Platform without the law being changed.

Luckily for Poland, its economy has done so well that such tactics do not have much effect.

The GloboHomos need new grist for their mills. The new conservative president of Poland needs a righteous hazing from them. As a warning to stay in line with the EU skunks in Brussels. Fines from Poland to pay their bloated salaries and bennies.

What comes first in Brussels is to pay their commissioners very very well. EU nation’s business comes in second or third. Keeping useless eater migrants Muslims out is at the bottom.

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