Mariusz Cieślik: My debt of gratitude to Karol Nawrocki

I know they exist and that their name is legion, because living in Poland, it's impossible to avoid contact with them. I see their activity online, I read about them here and there, and sometimes I have the opportunity to talk to them. However, it just so happens that there are no ardent PiS supporters around me. No one poisons my life with stories about how Donald Tusk sold Poland to the Germans; no one talks about illegal immigrants who will destroy Poland; or about "LGBT ideology." If I want to find out what the right-wing is currently threatening, I have to look online. I live in Warsaw, where the liberal mainstream dominates. I also work in the broad media, where liberal views are perhaps even more common, so I usually experience the obsessions of the other side firsthand. From various close and distant acquaintances, as well as from some family members, I constantly hear that PiS is ridiculing us, leading us out of Europe, and stealing our lives. That Duda said this, Kaczor said that, and Ziobro said that. Or perhaps we should say it in the past tense: "I heard." Because after the last election, to quote a classic, something in Poland broke, something ended.