"American Conservative" about the choice between slavery and freedom in Poland

Michael O'Shea, a visiting prof. at the Danube Institute wonders how Donald Trump's triumph in the US could aid the “Polish Conservatives” regain power. At the same time, it points out that divided Poles must fight again for freedom, while the possible of triumph is not promising.

A postgraduate of the Budapest Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, writes in "The American Conservative" about polarization in our country. Poles – as Jerzy Andrzejewski erstwhile noted – divide into 2 categories: those who advocate freedom and those who betrayed it by choosing communism. "Eight decades later, these moods are worryingly present and have been expressed in this year's version of the yearly March of independency in Warsaw" - comments the author.

O’Shea admits that “the American election consequence was a blessing to the Polish right”. Nor did his attention go to the behaviour of the parliamentarians who cheered in the Sejm, chanting "Donald Trump, Donald Trump".

Some commentators even speculated about the anticipation of “attracting to the side the abroad minister Radosław Sikorski, husband of neoconservative luminary Anne Applebaum, who had previously named Trump protofascistIt’s okay. ”

Some “optimists” even hoped for “the fall of the unsuccessful Tusk government, whose members combine only contempt for the distant conservative organization Law and Justice (PiS)”.

Although “the fresh Trump administration will indeed be an obstacle to Warsaw, speculation on the fall of the government is premature,” warns the author, who notes the “bright, gangster tactics” utilized by the ruling coalition in Poland “for the approval of Washington and Brussels”.

The prof. noted the intrusion into the office of the independency March organization, the intimidation of conservatives, attempts to paralyze the activities of the Constitutional Court and courts, as well as the "obsessive" pro-abortion activities and the placement – at Donald Tusk's command – of candidates on the electoral lists who support the killing of conceived children at the time of the election campaign. Referring to another task brought forward for its legality, which is only somewhat different from the previously rejected one, the author points out that even if it was accepted, the president would veto it anyway. However, this anticipation "may vanish in just six months" in connection with the change of president.

O’Shea notes that "to the surprise of many in the Anglosphere, immigration has besides become a key topic" in our country, although Prime Minister Tusk "has spoken harshly about European migration policy – the request for deep anti-immigration electorate – while quietly beginning up 49 fresh settlement centres for migrants across the country".

The author adds that “in the exclusive districts of Warsaw and in the industrial advanced Silesian agglomeration there are signs that could be observed in Western European cities and deindustrialised regions half a century ago. Poles of all political options argue these incidents, but both the old and the fresh government facilitated them."

The author did not miss the last savage beating that a young man committed against Fr Lech Lachowicz, who died from the wounds suffered. "This was the last of a series of atrocities that shocked the Church in the homeland of Pope John Paul II," we read.

The March of Independence, which the president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski tried to ban, then multiplied "bureaucratic ruses to let others to take the route", yet took place without "no crucial incidents, thus starting a unique Polish amusement involving questioning the size of political demonstrations". However, the author wonders whether the United Right will be able to mobilise the support of a large part of society to regain power.

The publicist concludes that this will not be easy due to the fact that "the voters are exhausted by 8 years of the regulation of the Law and the return of this organization to power would require the support of any previously antagonistic groups, most likely in this part of the current ruling coalition".

According to Michael O’Shea, “the presidential elections in May are more urgent,” on which the destiny of unborn children depends. And the current candidate supported by Tusk – Rafał Trzaskowski – retains for the minute a comfortable advantage over the candidate associated with the Law and Justice, historian Karol Nawrocki.

“Polish Conservatives are full of energy and organized, but power seems stubbornly beyond their reach,” says the author, adding that “he is reminded again of Poland with Ash... Andrzejewski’. "Idealists on both sides question the structure of the fresh world, this time 1 to replace the dying neoliberal order. Rule of law they lose importance and society approaches the abyss." The author adds that this should not be the case in a country that has suffered so much in the last century...

Source: americanconservative.com

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