Tomasz Rowinski | Karol Nawrocki will be president of large hopes for the patriotic camp in Poland, but besides for the Catholic opinion. These 2 things, the love of homeland and the principles of good politics that we derive from the tradition of a 1000 years of Christianity in our country, are a condition that the next 5 years may not be lost.
Even if we are assured in the declaration of the fresh president about his future actions, it is worth present – at the threshold of his presidency – to express precisely what we anticipate from him. Especially since the context of the coming word is historically specific. This is worth a small space before we decision on to circumstantial demands.
Short past of the 3rd Republic
The situation of Karol Nawrocki is akin in any respects to that of Andrzej Duda in 2015. At the time, the triumph of the outgoing president was a sign of the end of the era of consensus between post-communists and liberal parties of the erstwhile anti-communist and democratic opposition, which dominated Polish politics after 1989. The culmination of this dominance was the eight-year regulation of the Civic Platform, first led by Donald Tusk and then by Ewa Kopacz. They led – in 2015 – to the social solstice and rejection of the current model of politics in which Catholics, patriotic communities, people from smaller centres, and more broadly – Poles attached to their national form, which is our own way of knowing the world, principles or sovereignty, were increasingly marginalized. This marginalization had various faces: political, socio-cultural, media, but also, which is not the least important, economic.
About 1989, although it brought Poland a release from the communist dictatorship, 1 must think of present as the beginning of the liberal revolution, which was brought to Poland by West-formed, left-wing, intelligent people. specified people as Adam Michnik, Bronisław Geremek, and next to them Donald Tusk or a small younger their disciple Rafał Trzaskowski – and immediately behind them many another little crucial opinion makers – should be described present as agents of the liberal revolution. The slogans of democracy were and are for them and their environment, above all the way – apart from the accomplishment of private interest – to implement a extremist plan to rebuild Poland in the anti-Catholic and anti-swinging spirit. According to the spirit of European neo-marksism, proclaimed by specified people as the Italian communist Altiero Spinnelli, author of the Manifesto of Ventotene, to which supporters of greater centralization of the European Union frequently refer, Poland was to be shaped like the imaginations and dreams of enlightened ideologists. He wrote about it years ago, in a book worth mentioning here, Zdzisław Krasnodębski. The “Democracy of Periphery” remains to this day a evidence of the thoughts of Polish revolutionaries of 1989, which were small more than a movie of ideas found in Western liberal and left-wing intellectual books.
Utopia, of course, has not been full implemented. Patriotic and Catholic politics had their representatives not only in groups specified as the ZChN or the AWS, but besides for years in centrural, liberal and sometimes even leftist and post-communist groups. Without this, it would be impossible to overthrow even the abortion laws of the communist era, or many another evil laws of that time. Without these people, we would have had much more liberal disorder in the state from the very beginning of the 3rd republic. The early years of the 3rd Republic, however, are besides the time of the game of democratic appearances and conventions, in which the penetration of people representing patriotic ethos, besides into revolutionary parties, was inactive possible. The planet was in a geopolitical pause, and liberals thought they had plenty of time to rebuild Poland.
However, after the fall election of 2023, we saw the face of the liberal revolution in full. The global crisis, tensions between the powers, successive replacement wars or the bad condition of the European Union forced the Polish liberal parties, as well as European neo-communists to bring reins and abandon the masks of good democrats. Out of democracy – especially in Poland – there was only “a fighting democracy”, that is, nothing but the announcement of a fresh European dictatorship introduced under the banners of human rights, public safety or global stability.
Keep the Republic and end the liberal experiment
This is the situation he will gotta face, at least until the election in 2027, president Karol Nawrocki. A liberal abroad party, like the mad noble parties in the times of the First Republic, seeing hope for itself only according to the neighbouring powers of Poland, will search to surrender Poland to the Brussels occupation, to a deeper dependence on German interest. These are the Polish perspectives today.
What should president Karol Nawrocki have in this situation?
The President's task, as head of state, will be to do everything possible to make – as I wrote a year ago – “wide confederation in defence of my homeland”. Another defeat of the liberal abroad organization in the presidential elections, but besides the summing-up quantitative results of the patriotic camp in 2023 show that Poland is inactive to be recovered – for itself and for Poles. It won't be easy, but it's time to end a generation-long liberal experiment. Time to end the liberal revolution.
Liberal parties like to present their position on the state, on politics, on culture, or on public morality as something obvious. The abortion is to be obvious, the institutionalization of the demands of the political homosexual movement is to be obvious, the commitment of the Polish sovereignty of the European Union. The arguments of this point of view are presented by politicians and creators of revolutionary opinion, as people – at best – threatening public order. But it's the opposite. Let's take the substance of protecting lives. Standing on the side of the unborn is nothing more than defending the civilizational and legal heritage of the Polish state standing on the foundation of natural law and Decalogue. Even if we consider – what we should not do – only the achievements of the 3rd Republic do so. president Nawrocki must be free in his action and reasoning from slogans specified as the “ pendulum theory” which can slop into his ear not only liberals, but besides people from the environment of Law and Justice.
“I am [...] against ideological war on the streets of Polish cities”. “These are matters so delicate and concern things so fundamental that the worst that could happen in Poland is the repetition of tilted pendulums a fewer years ago. It is just as disturbing as the attacks on human life are taking place," said Karol Nawrocki in December 2024.
If there is to be a “confederation in defence of the homeland”, which will supply you with the strengthening of interior and external sovereignty, the president must know what objectives he wants to achieve, must have a specific, far-reaching imagination and a set of principles of action – including in the field of public morality of the state. Without a bold and ambitious perspective, good results cannot be achieved at least satisfactorily. If the president is indecisive in non-negotiable matters – just as the right to life – his electorate will shortly become indecisive and Poland will return to the hands of liberal polytechnologists for decades cleverly playing patriotic electorate. In the meantime, an chance opens up to change Poland in a permanent and more consistent way to its political and spiritual tradition. This tradition is to search for the political form most human to all man.
Important matters
It is clear that the President's power remains effective only in the narrow area of prerogatives. However, the presidential veto – for better or worse – remains an atomic control option in the state, frequently balancing the system. It is simply a substitute for the erstwhile Polish mixed strategy aimed at opposing tyranny. It besides gives a strong negotiating card in relations with the liberal government. The first task of president Nawrocki should so be the maximum neutralisation of political projects perpetuating the dominance of European hegemons over Poland. Where it will not be possible to act with a veto, a committed attitude of the presidential centre, critical of both government policy and proactive – resulting in reports, proposals for solutions, building the image of Poland that emerged from the liberal crisis. In this perspective, Karol Nawrocki's declaration that he is ready to cooperate with the Prime Minister "in matters good for Poland" should be read positively – the interest of the state and the common good require this.
President Karol Nawrocki should so take a decisive stand for human rights and sovereignty. The right to life is already violated with the aid of illegal guidelines of the erstwhile Minister of wellness of Isabella Leszczyna – and on the basis of 1 medical groundhog. As we know, Donald Tusk's government has long been waiting on the readiness to carry out government against alleged hatred speech. This is 1 of the foundations of the “fighting democracy” – 1 must intimidate and shut the mouth of all those who would like to criticize the agenda and people of the political homosexual movement and its buildings. The demolition of all natural communities, especially spiritual communities, families or marriage, is 1 of the essential objectives of real liberalism. This is not a fresh observation, Alexis de Tocqueville in his work “On Democracy in America”, besides taking advantage of the experience of the French Revolution already in the 1930s, observing the young American society that it is these communities that let people to defy democratic tyranny. For the same reason, liberal governments search to introduce elements of systemic depravity of youth into the education system.
It must be added that government against freedom of expression will most likely besides be aimed at those who would like to criticize liberal governments for their country's destructive immigration policy. 1 must be aware that “the speech of hatred” is the key to various forms of censorship. president Nawrocki must be aware of this.
There are more areas where Poland is threatened by Liberal governments. 1 can start with the methodical demolition of the constitutional strategy of the state and the strategy of justice, where the earlier actions of the regulation of law and justice must seem minor. This is president Nawrocki and his squad should step out of the function of just being anti-Tusk. Justice must be rebuilt, not simply taken over. The continuation of the tribal conflict for courts present is simply a worrying prophecy of the demolition of the full Homeland, not only its sovereignty, but besides its independence.
Battalion with the European Union
There are many matters concerning relations in the European Union, for which the choice of Rafał Trzaskowski would be, as Grzegorz Schetyna said, a “closure of the system”. There will undoubtedly be a request for the president to be active both in relation to the migration pact, as a consequence of which he can go to Poland – within the framework of “solidarisation mechanisms” – possibly even 100,000 not curious in integrating migrants annually, as well as in the climate pact, which is increasingly evident as an ideological option for the interests of the German state. However, these 2 crucial points of European policy are just a single component of the wide problem of the ongoing transfer of sovereignty from national countries to Brussels. This results in giving real power over Poland to abroad capitals. Even if the President's ability to deal with these problems is not great, he can undoubtedly give political speech to the narrations and prepare parties of the patriotic camp for effective governance, as I would stress.
Relations with the Law and Justice
The relation between president Nawrocki and the Law and Justice is important. Experience with the government of Jarosław Kaczyński organization is that this organization frequently treats problems belonging to the moral responsibilities of the state. He besides has a destructive tendency to put over the good of Poland his own, hegemonic ambitions regarding our political scene. Since president Nawrocki has stressed in fresh months the importance for his future presidency of social legitimacy that he has received from voters, it is expected that he will besides be a advocate for "less loved" cases by politicians, cases that do not bring them fast benefits and are essential to Poland. Only in this way can Karol Nawrocki step out of the function of “President Jarosław Kaczyński”. Only in this way can he become the leader of a broad political confederation that will save Polish political and moral sovereignty.
Silver eagles
I mentioned earlier that the accomplishment of these various advanced goals would not be easy, and not only for political reasons, but besides due to a intellectual attitude created in Poles by the liberal revolution. I realized this the last time I went back to reading an excellent fresh about the origins of the Polish state, or “Silver Eagles” by Teodor Parnicki. Parnicki opens his communicative at the minute erstwhile Bolesław Chrobry's immediate surroundings, a group of people truly afraid about the young Piast state, learns that the prince, after having made peace with Henry II, gives up his journey to Rome and the support of the German king in his ambitions of gaining the imperial crown.
Nobody understands anything from Bolesław's action, after all, the dignity of the Roman patrician for the “Slavish prince” is the fulfilment of political ambitions, although postponed, the possible of fulfilling Otto III's dreams of rebuilding the universal Christian Empire. Bolesław's actions are not a coincidence, however, the ruler of the Gniezno state already knows – after years of war experiences – that times have changed and German kings are not and will never be actual Catholic Roman emperors.
The same is actual of us today. The EU task has failed. The benefits which Poland derives from it must be increasingly questioned as benefits precisely. And yet we are attached to the Union, we inactive frequently have the political hope that it is simply a solid community of nations built in the past by Christian politicians and people of good will. In fact, however, we already know that German politicians will never be advocates of European solidarity. They weren't and they won't be. It would be good if president Nawrocki could aid Poles to accept this by means of a substantive and firm office. But is there a chance present to find a fresh way for the Republic of Poland erstwhile it has been a 1000 years since Chrobry? 1 may think that the Polish destiny is constantly to effort and never to give in to the work of being yourself.
Text released originally on the Ordo Iuris Institute website.
