The Polish Election
Well it's happened of course, the eventual culmination of the conditions of the Polish PIS party has fulfilled itself in the most predictable of fashions. I write this as the first exit polls have released showing an outright defeat for the PIS as well as a terrible showing for my favored Konfederate party, but even if somehow the exit polls are tremendously wrong as they were in Slovakia one month ago the failures are still the same if this was even a conversation. PIS has made the classic mistake of underestimating it's enemies, using the faulty underlying assumption that its party would be popular enough to sustain any election challenge at any time with their fingers on the scales. Their assumption that complete control of the news narrative on television will matter as much in 2023 as it did in 2015 or 2000 or any year before that, same with radio, PIS has the same problem the Republican party has in assuming its voter coalition represents a...