The purpose of this paper was to specify what is the share of narrowly understood micro-ideology in the political thought of Law and Justice. Embarking on the analysis of the above-stated problem, we first and foremost fixed particular methodological assumption. As a point of departure for our analysis we adopted the conception of the ideological morphology by Michael Freeden. In line with it, we assumed that ideologies are not fully distinct entities but they interact with one another. They are also partly overlapping and thus they share some contiguous points. As a result, in the first-conceptual-part of the paper, we defined populism as micro-ideology with four main properties. In accordance with the concept of populism, in the second part of the paper, we focused our attention on the problematics of elites and the people in the thought of Law and Justice. In the conceptions as well as in diagnoses adhered to by this party, elites did not discharge their duties, alienating themselves from the society and caring mainly about their own socioeconomic interest. The critique of elites, as formulated by the politicians of Law and Justice, was mainly related to their non-democratic genesis and artificially created putative "super-expertise".
Gray identifies modernity as a political trend, which has reached its developed expression in the Enlightenment political project, based on a rational reconstruction of morality, the idea of progress, secularization of politics and applying natural sciences methods to studying politics. The decline of the political Enlightenment, however, effected in some political disasters of the 20th century and left emptiness in the ideological space of western politics. Enlightenment project of a universal civilization demystificate not only premodern conceptions of political order, but also undermine itself and broke main intelectual western traditions. Political postmodernism, which is answer to this situation, inherits also some western conceptions like humanism embodied in emancipations tendencies or universalization of the liberal order. According to Gray’s thought, only radical attempt to theorize without typical western prejudices can be appropriate answer to late modern political and social reality
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