With the election pressure easing, Rafał Trzaskowski gave in to his true inclinations and rushed to join what Gazeta Polska columnist Witold Gadowski controversially labels as “Warsaw’s parade of perverts and satanists.”
Gadowski claims the Civic Platform politician was visibly distressed throughout his campaign, forced to pose with ordinary Poles and drape himself in the national colors. According to the columnist, Trzaskowski struggled to pretend he was a patriot connected to the concerns of citizens outside the metropolitan bubble—a role that Gadowski asserts was beyond his “not-insignificant mimetic abilities.”
“Polish voters,” Gadowski writes, “were alien and off-putting to this pampered darling from the stable of George Soros,” a man allegedly unaccustomed to courting the sympathy of what the columnist describes as “primitives and the unsuccessful.” Gadowski portrays Trzaskowski as the salon-approved candidate—expected to win, fed by illusions of effortless success, and ultimately disenchanted with the realities of political life.
In a broader ideological critique, Gadowski claims Trzaskowski belongs to a generation of “prefabricated modernists”—figures who lack firm principles and wield slogans as interchangeable props meant to manipulate a “dark and stinking populace.” He casts Soros as the mastermind behind this strategy, labeling him a “devotee of globalization” bent on creating a characterless “new man” to serve global capital. Trzaskowski, Gadowski suggests, is the “wunderkind” of this vision—one now bruised by two political defeats.
The columnist seizes on Trzaskowski’s appearance at this year’s Warsaw Equality Parade, mocking it as a “march of perverts and satanists” and ridiculing the presence of a group bearing signs such as “Satan doesn’t exclude.” Gadowski derides Trzaskowski’s open support for minority rights, presenting it as proof of his disconnection from average Poles and his descent into political irrelevance.
“His national career is in ruins,” Gadowski declares, “so now he indulges in expressing his personality, which turns out to be mostly a caricature of a ‘progressive and modern European citizen.’” He continues by criticizing what he sees as the ideological collapse of the EU, driven by “sick ideas” rather than confronting reality. The writer describes Western liberalism as a “political zoo” filled with “aggressive, dangerous malcontents.”
In Gadowski’s view, Trzaskowski lacks the depth and intellectual rigor to recognize the failure of contemporary European leftism. He accuses the mayor of Warsaw of hiding his political emptiness behind rainbow flags and politically correct platitudes, and asserts that Trzaskowski is fading from leadership into the role of a “comfortable activist,” one who profits from his ideological alignment while no longer being expected to offer anything of substance.
“No one,” Gadowski concludes, “will expect anything from him anymore.”