WSPÓŁCZESNY SPÓR O „PRAWICOWY POPULIZM” I DEMOLIBERALNY KONSENSUS - POLARYZACJA I KONFORMIZM OPINII ORAZ ASYMETRIA DEBATY
THE CONTEMPORARY DISPUTE OVER „RIGHT-WING POPULISM” AND DEMOLIBERAL CONSENSUS. POLARIZATION AND CONFORMISM OF VIEWS AND ASYMMETRY OF THE DEBATE

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is a contemporary political debate, considered in the aspect of: the dispute over “right-wing populism”, the strong polarization and cognitive credibility of the rival opinions, the controversial nature of its key concepts and intellectual conformism to the dominant climate of opinion. The thesis of key importance to the text as a whole concerns the source of cognitive defects in contemporary critique of “right-wing populism”. It expresses the author’s conviction that they are a consequence of approving the hegemonic aspirations of the liberal mind. The aim of the article has its critical and apologetic aspect. The first of them refers to the style of polemics with the contestation of demoliberal consensus, which discredits it with the stigmatizing epithet “populism”. The second concerns this tradition of understanding the origins and character of Western freedom (present, for example, in the Tory traditionalists of the “Peterhouse School” also known as the “Salisbury Group”), which emphasizes not only the importance but also the vitality of the premodern political heritage. The analyses contained in the article represent an interpretative theoretical approach. The study uses a comparative and historical method. The research procedure includes, inter alia, the confrontation of not only different opinions, but also the clash of two historical perspectives, i.e. the contemporary discussion on “right-wing populism” and the long-term debate on democracy and liberalism.

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