
Episode 4: “It’s a Very Short Path”
Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News
Poland's New Leader Takes a Hard Right Authoritarian Turn and Bans Abortion
Rachel Maddow: Isaac Davy-Aronson has a story from Poland with uncanny parallels to our own moment here. It's the story of a populist authoritarian leader who rode to power on a wave of nativism, nationalism, and conspiracy theories. He quickly remade his country's top court and got abortion ban against the will of the vast majority of the country. And it's the story how the backlash to the ban is now remaking the country's politics.
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