Othering’ of LGBT movement as an Element of Contemporary Populist Discourse in Poland

For the purposes of this paper I choose the term LGBT move- ment, as it is how the object of the research, Law and Justice party, refers to it, and since they are most often not talking about LGBT persons per se but the movement for LGBT rights as a whole. [...] I have carried out a Critical Discourse Analysis of Law and Justice’s discourse related to the LGBT com- munity, based on material from their official website, Twitter, and Twitter accounts of its prominent members with the aim of studying the process of enemization of the LGBT community by Law and Justice. [...] In the 2015 parliamentary election, Law and Justice won the majority of seats in both the lower and upper chambers of the parliament: the Senate and the Sejm. [...] I take Mudde and Kaltwasser’s ideational definition of populism and I only work with a variation of the thick type of populism, the right-wing populism, which is the combination of populism with nativism and authoritarianism. [...] And modernization does not have to be at the expense of respect for the past, our history and traditional values”40 Conclusion If we deconstruct the right-wing populist triad for Law and Justice’s LGBT discourse, we have the following result: Table 4 — LGBT discourse of Law and Justice within the right-wing populist triad Theory LBGT discourse of Law and Justice “pure” people “normal” Catholic het.