Trump 2.0: president without brakes
On January 6, 2025, Donald Trump reiterated the words of the presidential oath. But this time America was a different country — and Trump was a different politician. He drew conclusions from his first term: he got free of the professionals, surrounded loyalists, and the administration turned into a court where ministers recited peanas in his honor.
His abroad policy has become a mixture of transactional and fascination with authoritarianism. Intervention in Venezuela — presented in Poland as the overthrow of a dictator — raises more questions than hope. Is it democracy or oil? Is it about stabilisation or about another “deal”?
In the background, there is simply a trade war against China, which strikes US farmers, and a continuous hunt for immigrants, frequently subdued by racism. In the US, the number of people with Latin beauty is expanding erstwhile they are detained “prophylactically”. These are not incidents — this is simply a fresh norm.
Difficult year with hard presidents - Marcin Celiński COTYGODNIK
Midterms as a referendum against Trump
Complementary elections in the US show a clear trend: Democrats win even where they had no chance before. Problem is, the organization inactive has no leader. Barack Obama, although effective as a run ‘kingmaker’, cannot be the face of the future. And the future Democratic candidate inactive remains a vague figure.
Poland: elections that cannot be verified
The Polish presidential year proved equally bitter. Karol Nawrocki became president, but the question of the integrity of the election process remains unanswered. Not due to the fact that we know the degree of the irregularity, but due to the fact that no 1 has led to its verification.
The deficiency of husbands of trust, the chaos in committees, the unwillingness of the opposition to fight to number the votes — all this has made it so that present we do not know who truly won. And we'll never know.
This is not a problem for Trzaskowski or Nawrocki. It's a problem with future elections. The state has shown that it is possible to shoot on procedures, and losers do not even gotta effort to prove it.Difficult year with hard presidents - Marcin Celiński COTYGODNIK
A conservative voter? Species extinct
The elections showed something else: there are no more conservative voters in the classical sense in Poland. There are only organization voters. Even if the candidate is proved to be vaguely connected, questionable past, disturbing contacts, or lies, he inactive gets millions of votes.
It's not a rational choice. It's tribal loyalty.
Russia's already here — and she's fine
The most worrying subject of the year, however, is not elections, but an informational war which is taking place in Poland without any control. Russian narratives flow through hundreds of portals, bots, troll farms and AI accounts. This is seen in organized attacks on journalists, as in the case of Wojciech Czuchnowski, who revealed the reasons for refusing to certify safety for Sławomir Cenckiewicz.
Heyt wasn't spontaneous. They were slots, mass texting, organized operation. And you? Helpless.
Presidential Palace as an umbrella for chaos
The fresh president will not only not be a brake on these processes — he will be their ally. It will veto any effort to regulate the Internet, the transparency of political ads, the labelling of AI-generated content or the fight against anonymous impact campaigns.
That means 1 thing: In Poland, an era begins where information chaos becomes a political tool. And the state has no instruments to counter that.
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The Year That Set the Future
The past year was the year of 2 presidents — Trump and Nawrocki — but was actually the year of the failure of control. About information. The institutions. The election trials. About what's actual and what's only a well-programmed narrative.
That was the year it turned out democracy does not die from major coups. He dies of negligence, omissions, and the fact that no 1 watches the procedure.
2025 IN AMERICA POLICIES – Mariusz Braszkiewicz
