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Your occasional reminder that PiS’s “stunning single-party victory in 2015” was (a) achieved by three parties, not one; (b) the contingent product of the left’s decision to run as a coalition, not a party; (c) based on an appeal to moderate voters; (d) not actually that large.

#1 8:52am Jun 4th 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac

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I mention this as I keep seeing it adduced as one of the first major steps in the narrative of The Inexorable Rise Of Populism, despite the presence of facts which contradict this interpretation.

#2 8:54am Jun 4th 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to BDStanley

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The populism largely came after the electoral victory had been secured. This government does not have an electoral mandate for illiberal revolution any more than it has the legislative authority to conduct one.

#3 8:55am Jun 4th 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to BDStanley

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