RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116234918216796533
Donald Tusk is mainstreaming the fringe far-right idea of Polexit to instrumentally use it in the next elections – to try and scare people away from voting on PiS.
This will massively backfire, just as mainstreaming Brexit massively backfired in the UK.
There is no lack of reasons not to vote for PiS. Instead of mainstreaming this dangerous crap, Tusk could focus on literally anything else.
@gotofritz Polexit is still pretty fringe, by far most Poles are strongly for staying in the EU.
Far-right parties are gradually more openly talking about Polexit, and the right-wing major party, PiS, is winking towards the idea.
PM Tusk, by talking about it, is making that suddenly a very mainstream subject. Even though he opposes it, he is trying to exploit it for political gains over PiS. This is a great way of putting it front-and-center in political debate.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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