Grzegorz Braun's emergence in popularity is not just about a wave of Euroscepticism. Braun did more than take anti-Semitism out of the political underground and bring it on the main stage. Nobilized Jewry — hate, no shame, no camouflage. And it turns out any of the audience was waiting for it. And the Holocaust “was not.”
Anti-Semitic Resentiments For years they have been in the part of the electorate of the PiS and the Confederacy, but there is simply a deficiency of a policy to talk out. Braun filled this gap. He became a tribune of people who wanted to shout pathological hatred of Jews, but until now they were confined to whispers.
Plus, the public Sympathy to the Kremlin and hostility to Ukraine. For part of society, Russia inactive appears as a symbol of order and the times of the Polish People's Republic as a period of stability. In this logic, the sanctions imposed on Russia are not a punishment for aggressor, but an alleged origin of its own economical problems.
Anti-Ukrainianism in this communicative is seldom due to historical reflection on Volyn. More frequently out of simple tribal thinking, “They aid them—so they bargain from us.” Braun gave it a voice and a microphone.
It wasn't Braun who created these attitudes. He concentrated them, strengthened them, and put them in a political form. That’s why he’s dangerous — due to the fact that he’s saying out loud what he’s been whispering.
“The happiness of God” in Braun’s mouth sounds like blasphemy.
