Why Tarczyński Fears for Europe
Polish politician Dominik Tarczyński says radical Islam now threatens Europe as much as communism once did — a bleak read on the continent's direction that will cheer the European right and alarm everyone else.
- He puts jihadist networks on the same level of danger as the communist rule he grew up under in Poland.
- Communism, he says, was pure evil — and he never expected to compare anything to it.
- His claim is that Europe as a whole is being wrecked from within, not threatened from outside.
- He credits Trump as a reason for hope, tying the American right directly to Europe's internal fights over immigration and Islam.
Outlook: Expect this framing — mass migration as an existential threat — to keep driving European politics as national elections approach.