The West to Poland: Democracy for Me, Not for Thee

Occasionally political posturing is so bewilderingly hypocritical that the corporate media do not attempt to defend it. Europe-watchers have been subject to such a development this month amid the latest Trump-related “national reckoning” in the United States.

In Poland, no stranger to foreign media this year, uproar has ensued over enactment of an American-style commission to investigate Russian interference in the country’s government. Only here the ruling government stands on the Right. The presumed subject of inquiry is the Polish Donald T.—Tusk, that is. He is the chief opposition leader, longtime Eurocrat, darling of the Western establishment, and owner of considerable political baggage. (Ironically, he demanded an investigation of political opponents for Russian collusion just last year; the European People’s Party, which he led until 2021, is subject to a European criminal corruption probe.) Opposition supporters fear that Tusk’s implication in Russia dealings could bar him from holding office, yet another fascinating parallel to the current state of American political wrangling...