Europe

How Trump Set Poland on the Path to Dictatorship

DICTOCRACY?

The ruling party has suppressed systematically any challenge to its authority ever since it came to power in 2015. But after the Trump visit, it picked up the pace.

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Krzysztof Sitkowski/Handout via Reuters

WARSAW—Imagine a government deciding one day that the country’s supreme court is corrupt and needs to be purged completely. A bill is introduced that will force all of the court’s judges to retire and be replaced—and it is pushed through with lightning speed and without regard for procedures.

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