American Spectator: Polish leadership lashed out after Vance exposed their hypocrisy.
“They can’t censor JD Vance, so they get hysterical and try to shout him down, without asking where he was wrong,” said Dr. Mieczysław Ryba, a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. “The very fact that Tusk reacted to JD Vance’s statement shows that it hurt him.”
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"It is springtime in the West.
"This moment recalls the words of Poland’s Cold War-era philosopher Leszek Kołakowski, who asserted, “Obvious lies uttered aloud with impunity are excellent proofs of the health of the system.” The lies are no longer uttered with impunity, and that’s an indication the liberal order is crumbling.
Vance’s Hard Truths Resonate
Vice President JD Vance magnified this new reality in his veritable Zeitenwende speech in Munich last week. According to the vice president, Europe is captive to a self-important political class disdainful of its citizens, increasingly willing to stifle their speech and democratic preferences, and militarily reliant on an America that it scorns. None of this is novel in circles critical of liberalism, but Vance asserted it with the gravitas of his office, at a sacred altar of the transatlantic elite — an American Zeitenwende, indeed.
"Though the vice president did not mention Poland in his speech, Poles immediately perceived their country as an implicit target of criticism. His line about “the side in that fight that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that canceled elections,” noted in a Cold War context, particularly fired passions across the Polish political spectrum.
"Recall that the current Polish government has made a mockery of democratic principles after coming to power on a platform dominated by “rule-of-law” rhetoric. Since December 2023, the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has staged a coup at the public broadcaster, arrested political opponents and Catholic priests, maltreated protesters, and ignored rulings — and even the offices — of judges it finds inconvenient.
"The EU’s rule-of-law mechanism, currently wielded against sovereigntist governments in Hungary and Slovakia, disappeared instantly after former EU Council President Tusk returned to Warsaw. Tusk has cited the political science doctrine of “fighting democracy,” a concept developed — predictably enough — as a response to the Nazi era in which the European political class perpetually resides. (RELATED: Why Isn’t Poland Smiling? Just Ask the Protesting Farmers Attacked by Police Last Week.) . . .
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"The so-called libertine, free-loving, open society of Europe is very closed. It’s a one-party system, in the sense that they only allow left-wing views. It’s to the left of the radical American Democratic Party."
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