.ON OCT 9TH Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, and Donald Tusk, a previous prime minister and also the forerunner of the principal hostility party, experienced one another in a televised debate, 6 days just before nationwide political elections. Four other applicants were on stage, but the two guys compensated them little bit of hearken. "I don't recognize what they poured in to your glass, you're delighted and assertive," popped Mr Tusk. Mr Morawiecki accused his challenger's celebration of selling off national jewels. "They will sell our forests, the Baltic [Sea] and the Tatra [Mountains]," he declared. Their exchange was rep of a project that has actually trickled vitriol. Each edges have charged the other of cronyism as well as treason, impatiently trading comparisons to Nazis and also Soviets. Why has it been so horrible?