We are absurdly reluctant to talk about the policies needed to encourage the birth of more children.
Weakening at home and friendless abroad, it finds itself on the back foot – and exposed to its nations’ reliance on EU funds.
But they have hugely different views on economic policy to PiS, and consider its pro-Catholicism naive at best.
It’s time for us to acknowledge that it is a response to our own failures – and to listen to voters who are opting for it.
The Law and Justice Party has sought to foment a poisonous dynamic which could do great harm to relations with Poland’s Jews.
Law and Justice’s agenda is being wildly misunderstood – or misrepresented – by its critics and enjoys the strong support of the voters.
The modern state is intended to restrain those who seek a monopoly on power. Such people naturally resent it when that system works.
The overwhelming evidence, after years of trying, is that the political will and courage simply is not there.
One party is national conservative, while the other is liberal conservative. Sadly, both are afflicted with left-wing ideas.