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DOSSIER This inconsistency of the surge of Eu- cial nationalism which are rather used in
roscepticism as a “Russian matter” was order to provide attention, however at the
additionally demonstrated with Poland’s same time they are an obstacle for access
example, which was part of our analy- to a vast contingent of votes. The attempts
sis in the last edition. Namely, in Poland to once again explain Trump’s success as
Jarosław Kaczyński, winning the votes of a Russian impact is additional voluntarism
the Eastern parts of the country where ru- and lack of ability for a profound analysis
ral and less educated population lives, in and identification of the motives of the
the last elections, defeated the party Civic voters. The disclosure of hacked emails of
Platform of Donald Tusk, who is currently Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party,
the president of the European Council. which was performed by some Russian
The fight was mostly dedicated to the issue hacking group, seem to be a part and a
of the relations with the European Union subject of analysis as a part of some great
whereby Kaczyński built his nationalism Russian conspiracy. Still these stories are
Euroscepticism mostly on the basis of rather political marketing which is led
anti-Russian and pro-NATO political op- by many parties, not missing the Russian
tion!!! To make the paradox even greater, side, which would like to represent itself as
the fight there is practically between the influential and powerful, and they do not
two right-wing parties, the Civic Platform have some significant impact on Trump’s
of Donald Tusk, which is a moderate pro- political power. The general movements
European right-wing, and the party “Law certainly do not remain unnoticed by the
and Justice”, whose foundations are in Russian side, and probably they would like
the Euroscepticism, traditionalism and to have impact, and do try so, on the politi-
solid religious conservatism. In Poland, cal processes throughout the world, how-
the left wing is practically rejected from ever the indication of the Russian impact
the political battle and what is interesting for the success of the new political move-
is that there is no particular success and ments only departs the focus from the real
penetration of the new wave of the radical challenges that the modern societies are
left-wing. facing.
And as the advertisers in teleshopping The deep analysis of each of the new
commercials like to say – that is not all. The occurrences is particularly burdened with
diversity of the radical right wing gets even many specifics and details which obscure
more diversification if one analyzes the the perspectives if being analyzed from a
unexplainable success of the political vol- higher distance. Though, as we have seen ,
untarism and populism of Donald trump. the emergence of the new radical political
The points of identification certainly exit, movements through the countries, which
the only thing is that the Euroscepticism we consider a part of the western civiliza-
there should be reflected in the redefini- tion, have their specific profile and strong-
tion of the relations with the countries ly expressed differences, however one can-
from the two American continents. How- not neglect their relative synchronized
ever, the more profound analysis shows emergence, or represent it is a coincidence.
that his political basis for this includes The world is really facing a need of politi-
only the relations with Mexico, thereby us- cal change, and the inability to identify the
ing the emotional thread of the growing factors and the reasons that lead to it, is
racial impatience for migrants with His- only a handicap of the social and political
panic origin and Muslims. Thereby maybe science, rather than a basis for the non-
one can find common characteristics with existence of a common denominator.
the anti-migrant movement in Europe,
however Trump’s rise is much more based DIVIDED SOCIETIES AND
on the “anti-establishment” political ba- SOCIAL DIVISION
sics and the separation of the overall social
movements which are characteristic of What was specific in the second half of
the United States, than the outbursts of ra- the XX century was the existence of block
division of the societies which were oth-
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