It's Today Explained, I'm Newell King.
And I'm Miles Bryan.
A few weeks back,
Noel and I went to Poland to report on what happened a little over a decade ago when Poles voted into power a government with authoritarian leanings.
This set Poland down a perilous path that seemed almost impossible to come back from.
They had the presidency, they had the prime minister in government,
and they also decided to sort of destroy the judiciary and the media.
Let's talk about that.
Does it sound familiar?
Yes, it does.
It does sound very familiar.
Do an American, it sure does.
So we went to check the story out.
It's the story of how polls democratically elected an undemocratic government and how against considerable odds they booted out the authoritarians and got their democracy back.
I got in the water in the very early morning before the sun had risen and the water was pitch black.
I started swimming and I felt the water hollowing out around me and felt like something really big was swimming below.
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