If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.
– US Vice President Vance

A nation that does not forget its past:
candles on graves at Brodnowski Cemetary, Warsaw

I wasn’t even aware that there was an upcoming election in Poland until Beloved Wife got a screeching social media message from one of her cousins in the country, warning darkly against one of the candidates for President, one Karol Nawrocki. I’d never heard of the guy before and assumed that the post of President was like that in Ireland and a few other nations; largely symbolic compared to the government and Prime Minister.

But it seems that a Polish President has veto power over most of what a government passes as legislation. As to Nawrocki himself, our guesses about him (based on the Polish Cuzzie hysterics) were correct:

[Nawrocki] energized a large swath of the electorate with a campaign built on national identity, traditional Catholic values, and skepticism of European Union overreach.
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[He differentiated] himself from his liberal opponent on issues such as LGBTQ+ ideology, sensationally placing a rainbow flag on Trzaskowski’s podium during a nationally televised debate…. Nawrocki has also cast himself to the right of the previous PiS [the conservative Law and Justice party] government, criticising its record on mass migration and declaring that “receiving Islamic immigrants is always wrong.” He has also come out firmly against the European Union’s Green New Deal, saying that it must “be rejected”.

But it turns out that he’s even more evil than that.

Aside from all that he’s an interesting character: a former boxer in his youth and an academic historian specialising in anticommunist opposition in Poland, (his PhD thesis is Social Resistance to Communist Rule in the Elbląg Voivodeship, 1976–1989), as well as organised crime in the Polish People’s Republic and even sporting history.

I could see how all that would stick in the craw of the EU elites – and now he’s the President of Poland:

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, Law and Justice (PiS) party candidate Karol Nawrocki will become the next president of Poland after winning 50.89 per cent of the vote, with a total of 10,606,628 votes. In comparison, the progressive mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski won 49.11 per cent, with 10,237,177 votes. The paper reported that turnout in the hotly contested election stood at 71.6 per cent.
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[Trzaskowski ] opened the race with a strong lead over his relatively unknown challenger. However, Nawrocki rose in the polls in recent weeks, with a final survey before the second round of voting showing that he had closed the gap to just one percentage point.

Polish governance is not going to be business-as-usual with Tusk and Nawrocki going head-to-head:

The result deals a major blow to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose pro-European government will now have to navigate a combative and politically opposed president. Though Poland’s presidency is largely ceremonial, the office wields the power to veto legislation — a power Nawrocki is expected to use often. Analysts suggest a tense political period lies ahead. “Nawrocki’s presidency means a high-level conflict between the president and Tusk,” said Joanna Sawicka of Polityka Insight. With Tusk’s coalition unable to override presidential vetoes, his legislative agenda is effectively gridlocked for the foreseeable future.

If you think that the term “globalist” is overused then take a look at what the NYT, in far away America, had to say about Nawrocki’s victory over his EU-favoured opponent:

The Polish runoff came just two weeks after voters in Romania rejected a nationalist candidate in a presidential election, a result that raised the hopes of Polish liberals that Europe’s right-wing populist wave was receding.

As the NYT knows very well, the Romanian presidential election saw a nationalist candidate winning the first round and advancing to the final, along with a center-right candidate – until those results were tossed and the nationalist barred from running again.

In the re-run, the replacement nationalist candidate again handily won round 1, but was defeated by the establishment candidate in round 2.

This should not have been a surprise. The last thirty years of EU “democracy” has seen a succession of elections being rerun until voters produce the correct result.

  • Denmark, 1992: voters shot down referenda on EU issues. The following year they were forced to undo their own vote.
  • Ireland in both 2001: same
  • France, 2005: rejects the new EU Constitution, a real shock for one of the founding members of the EEC and then the EU.
  • Holland, 2005: same – after which the EU canned the other national referendums and produced the Treaty of Lisbon to do much the same stuff, but which required only votes in the tame EU Parliament.
  • Ireland, 2008: voters shoot down more referenda on EU issues and again are forced to undo their own vote the following year.
  • Holland, 2023: the “far-right” party wn the general election but the party’s leader us not allowed to become Prime Minister or even serve in the cabinet.
  • Germany 2025: voters chose a majority right-leaning parliament, but a left-leaning government is sworn in to avoid “contamination” by the “far-right.”
  • France 2024: same
  • Portugal 2024 and 2025: same.
  • France, 2025: Marine Le Pen, the leading candidate for president in 2027 is barred from running, lest she win.

And this news just in, it’s happening in Holland again:

After the 2023 election, Parliament defied convention and named a technocrat, Dick Schoof, as Prime Minister, rather than Wilders, the head of the largest party [the anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV)]. Schoof has led a right-leaning coalition government, including PVV. Schoof’s government never followed through on promises made to reform immigration laws, leading to today’s collapse.

The article points out that when Wilders anti-immigration predecessor, Pim Fortuyn, started down this road in 2000, the share of the Dutch in the nation’s population was 91 percent, with 3 percent Muslim, whereas now the Dutch share is 72 percent, and the Muslim share 6 percent.

The only one of these votes that stuck was Brexit in 2016, and then only by the skin of its teeth, after three years of desperate efforts by the British and EU elites to reverse that result. Even now the jury is out as it seems that “Remainer” PM, Kier Starmer, is doing everything he can to nullify it, whether by giving away British assets or just doubling down on the immigration stuff:

The number of illegal migrants and small boats entering the country is now rapidly spiralling, fuelling the immigration crisis and a broader collapse of public trust in the established parties and, for that matter, the entire system. On Saturday alone, some 1,195 illegal migrants entered the UK on 19 small boats. This is the largest number for a single day this year, the fourth largest on record since the border crisis began, and means that overall number this year, nearly 15,000 illegal migrants, is some 42 per cent higher than the same point last year.

Maybe these people – meaning Starmer and company – actually just hate their own nations and wish to burn them down, with the plan that something better will emerge from the ashes. Call it Euro Zero.

Karol Nawrocki will have his work cut out for him against these characters – and he’d better be watching his back.