Restoring democracy in Poland

Donald Tusk was sworn in as Poland's new prime minister on Dec. 13, but he faces a monumental task.

New Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, pictured, has learned the two most important rules of 21st-century elections in Europe: don't touch the welfare state and cultivate the youth vote, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Arno Mikkor/EU2017EE/Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 13, 2023

It didn’t take the United States long to restore the normal constitutional order after four years of Donald Trump. He is a ruthless and lawless man, but also a lazy and feckless one, and he simply didn’t bother to do all the damage he might have done to American democrac...

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