The Polish right has always looked at American. In the 1990s, she spoke with admiration about Ronald Reagan, sometimes presenting him as a individual who together with John Paul II defeated the russian Union and ended the reign of “comune” in Poland. In 2000, erstwhile the AWS was falling apart in the country, his politicians sought comfort in Bush junior's victory. Throughout the past of the 3rd Republic, the United States besides seemed to be right-wings – from the Corvinovian to the average wing of the Law and Justices – more ideologically attractive than Western European democracies. due to the fact that they had lower taxes, lower social and regulations, more severe punishments for criminals, inactive ruling the death penalty, guaranteed citizens access to weapons, and religion played a much stronger function in public life and politics, due to the fact that there were strong groups fighting women's reproductive rights.
However, the Polish right was never as glued to the American as today. The PiS and the Confederacy are increasingly turning into the franchise of the MAGA movement, and Trump's cult in the Polish Parliament or any right-wing media is becoming more and more sized to embarrass Texas or Nebraska. all stupidest and most striking message by Trump in Polish interests can number on a chorus of interpretations from the right side convincing that Trump has a superb plan, plays five-dimensional chess, and the consequence of this gameplay will surely be good for Poland.
Finally, especially since Trump's fresh run in Poland, there has been a group of politicians and opinion leaders, which can be described as "MAGA patriots" – so heavy connected to American political conflicts, that surviving in their rhythm more than those designated by national politics.
Was Charlie Kirk Polish?
This phenomenon was shown perfectly by Polish reactions to the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Polish right-wing net burned as if the victim of a execution on a campus in Utah was not an American influencer, deprived of any relation with Poland, but the personally known star of tv Republic, and the execution was committed during the event at the university's student club, let's say, Częstochowa.
“Leasure, see this? “His blood on you and on your sons” – so he commented on his profile on the X portal Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz, putting Kirk together with Christ and letting a small steam in the “judeosceptual” whistle. another posts from more or little anonymous accounts, blaming the “left” for the assassination of a right-wing activist and getting into the full case as if what the Polish right-wing would compose in Polish about Kirk would have any effect on how this tragedy would change the American public sphere.
The “Networks” week devoted the cover to Kirk with the signature “So kills the left”, asking a dramatic question: “Will left-wing terrorism be stopped?”. No “left-wing terrorism” in Poland was fortunately seen, but the letter repeats behind the Trump right-wing argument about the left, which demonizes opponents as fascists, “to be able to kill them”. All of this is far from Polish political and social reality like Utah from Świętokrzyski, and yet it ignites the emotions of right-wing commentariat more than many Polish disputes.
Polish MEPs were included in a group that wanted to celebrate Kirk with a minute of silence in the European Parliament. erstwhile this application was rejected, Polish politicians took care to adequately emphasize the outrage on social channels. They were besides joined by those who sit in the Polish parliament, for example Przemysław Czarnek, who commented the full situation on the X portal: "The incredible rudeness of the left and left in the European Parliament. The president disregarded and boycotted the motion to celebrate a minute's silence of the memory of Charlie Kirk, murdered in the United States. Shame, degeneration’.
At the request of clubmate Czarnek, Paweł Jabłoński, the Polish Sejm celebrated Kirk with a minute of silence. The PiS MP argued that Kirk was “a young generation activist valued not only in the US but all over the world” and called for “the opposition to political hatred”. In his motion, he conveniently omitted Kirk's views on the war in Ukraine, where he had statements indistinguishable from Russian propaganda.
In consequence to Kirk's assassination, president Trump announced the designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization. Mr Dariusz Matecki immediately so announced, that the PiS Group would ask Donald Tusk to take an example from Washington: “We request that we go in the same direction as the United States, as Hungary, that Poland should ask the European Union to recognise Antifa as a terrorist organisation”.
During the same conference, standing in the background of Kirk's "poor" pictures, Zbigniew Ziobro stated that his killer "identified himself with LGBT environments" and assured that the Law and Justice Office would "resist against leftist tendencies and demands to impose its own leftist leftist views through state force or physical violence."
Policy at the MEGA franchise
The aforementioned Matecki seems to be a transplant on the Polish land working for Trump's triumph since 2016, an American alt-right online activist. Matecki is the most clear example of a policy that turns into a "keyboard fighter", acting more like an influencer, an net troll or a hater than a classically understood organization activist or MP.
In his infleuencer-throlling activity, Matecki frequently deals with national matters, especially “lawless bodnarists” or Minister Żurek, which is not amazing given that he heard allegations of misappropriation from the Justice and Fictional employment Fund in State Forests, and even went to temporary detention in connection with them. At the same time, from the American alt-right, he transfers not only the form of political practice to Polish politics, but besides its content, triggering American political and cultural conflicts and virtually engaging in American political disputes on the Trumpian side. erstwhile the primaries started in the U.S. last year, Matecki, for example, posted his X account to his selfie in the MAGA cap, expressing “full support for Trump from the heart of Polish democracy”. "It is time to end the era of political correctness in Western civilization," Matecki continued, all in English.
Since Trump assured himself of the Republican nomination in last year's election, MEGA caps have become a compulsory component of the Pisa fashion. MPs like Mariusz Gosek threw their social media photos In the Polish Sejm, after Trump's triumph in November, they besides chanted "Donald Trump".
Pisowski "Congressman" and "citizen diplomacy" Sakiewicz
The Polish politician most implicated in the MEGA movement is the Euro MP Dominik Tarczyński, who even received the nickname "Congressman". In fact, Tarczyński frequently acts as if the next run was to be conducted in Pennsylvania, alternatively than in a Euro-parliamentary territory comprising the Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie provinces, which he represents in Brussels today.
During last year's election in the States of Tarczyński became very active in Trump's campaign. As he said in conversation with a portal in Politics: “I worked with Donald Trump's staff on many levels. We started with meetings with Polonia, then there were open meetings not only with Polonia, but mostly with voters in the US. I started by participating in the largest American podcasts, including Patrick Bet-David."
After Trump won the election, Euro MP Tarczyński continued to defend the fresh president, which the most curiosity took in his polemic with Madonna. erstwhile the vocalist criticized the president on the X portal, Tarczyński replied to her to “retard”, “because the people decided again”, and if she did not like this decision, she could decision to Canada or Mexico.
Its presence in the MAGA movement with even greater momentum than Tarczyński is besides built tv Republic – what late analysed in Oko press Agata Jawsniak. Tomasz Sakiewicz's station presents itself as a force that, erstwhile the Tusk government allegedly destroys our relations with the States, conducts “citizen diplomacy” in the MEGA camp. In fact, the contacts of the Republic helped to organise a gathering between Andrzej Duda and Trump during the CPAC conference in February – although these contacts did not suffice for the gathering to be limited to a fewer minutes in the corridor. During Nawrocki's visit to the States, the Republic organised the Transatlantic Summit with representatives of the MEGA movement and American business. Tomasz Sakiewicz summed it up later, stating that the Republic is fighting in this way to make a "free region for American business" in Poland, especially as regards the Internet.
What if the interests of MAGA and Poland are contradictory?
The key problem with our “MAGA patriots” is, unfortunately, that in a situation where the Polish and American interests are contradictory, they will insist to the end that there is no contradiction, and yet they will choose America's interests. That from all the "citizen's diplomacy" and photos in MEGA caps may yet consequence in a policy that turns Poland into "a sphere of freedom of American business".
One of the franchisees of MAGA in Polish politics is besides president Nawrocki. The key event before the second circular was the CPAC conference in Jasionka, where the future president of Poland received an "investment" from the Trump administration, represented by the head of the Kristi Noem interior safety Department. In his first speech at the UN, Nawrocki repeated Trump's main thesis, including attacks on the European Union or the Green Deal.
Energy transformation, digital tax, strengthening European integration and the European pillar of safety are the key tasks of Polish policy present – unfortunately, the more the right hand will be MAGIZ, the more hard it will be to build a political consensus around them in Poland.
