by Steve Sailer
January 20, 2016
The upcoming GOP primary donnybrook between the establishment right and the antiestablishment right has had a foreshadowing in Polish politics over the past dozen years in the war between Poland’s two dominant parties, both conservative. If you want to know what a Trump presidency might be like, the bumptious populist conservative government elected in Poland three months ago offers some clues.
In the U.S. before the rise of Trump, the emerging schisms on the right — globalism versus nationalism, elitism versus populism, diversity versus solidarity — were mostly papered over by Republicans for the sake of putting up a united front against Democrats.
But Poland’s recent history is revealing because the left is so discredited there (in last October’s parliamentary elections, the top five parties, which 
won 83 percent of the vote, were all more or less on the right) that the tensions among 21st-century conservatives already dominate national debate.
This was exemplified by the Polish rightist parties’ clashing over how to respond to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s diktat to invite a million-Muslim mob into Europe, which wound up with a single party winning an absolute majority in parliament for the first time in the history of modern free Poland.