The way to defeat the populist far right, it seems, is to oppose it tooth and nail. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk can attest to that. Since ousting Poland’s populist Law and Justice party from power last fall, he has been uncompromising in opposing the anti-democratic illiberalism that it represents. And in the European Parliament election last week, his Civic Coalition had the best performance of all major mainstream parties in the EU, securing a surprising 37.1 percent of the vote.
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