'Hatred is becoming more visible': shocked Gdańsk mourns slain mayor
<snip>His liberal stance cast him as a hate figure for government supporters and the far right. In a 2017 publicity stunt, the All-Polish Youth movement published a series of political death certificates of pro-European politicians; on Adamowiczs certificate, they put his cause of death as liberalism, multiculturalism, stupidity. Observers say he was regularly subjected to personal attacks and abuse on social media and from rightwing media outlets.<snip>
<snip>Some of the attacks continued even after he died. In an interview with a rightwing media outlet broadcast on the day Adamowiczs death was announced, the far-right politician Grzegorz Braun described him as a traitor to the nation for his political views.<snip>
<snip>Some people have drawn parallels between Adamowiczs murder and the assassination of Gabriel Narutowicz, the leftwing president of interwar Poland who was shot by a rightwing activist in the 1920s. Making this connection explicit, a silent march against hatred held in Warsaw on Monday evening made its way through the streets of the capital to the Zachęta art gallery, where Narutowicz was killed in 1922.<snip>
Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/gdansk-polish-city-mourning-mayor-pawel-adamowicz-stabbing
It's not just Poland, but many corners of Europe seem to be falling off the cliff into right wing nuttiness. It will be a long hard battle to pull the world back from the edge.