Is There Room for Revolutionary Conservatives in a Liberal Democracy? Lessons from the U.S. and Poland

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In old and new democracies alike, the right has largely given up its traditional instinct to conserve. Instead, it has adopted the revolutionary tactics once associated with the Left. The United States Donald Trump case and Poland Law & Justice—PiS case are the two clearest cases in which this “conservative revolution” has gone full circle—seizing power, losing it, refusing to disappear, and then returning—all while holding on to somewhere between a third and a half of the electorate. The recent Oxford University Press volume Let’s Agree on Poland eds. Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk, 2025 confronts precisely the problems that follow from this situation, and forms the basis for this event. The event has four aims. The first is to introduce a U.S. policy, academic, a…

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