What are the reasons that Poland's people would allow the elimination of separation of powers?

Question

The US State Department stated:

The Polish government has continued to pursue legislation that appears to undermine judicial independence and weaken the rule of law in Poland,” ... “We urge all sides to ensure that any judicial reform does not violate Poland’s constitution or international legal obligations and respects the principles of judicial independence and separation of powers.”

The New York times elaborates:

Brushing aside warnings from the European Union and ignoring tens of thousands of protesters in the streets, Poland’s Parliament gave final approval to a landmark measure on Saturday that would restructure the Supreme Court, putting it under effective control of the governing party.

My question is: What are the reasons that Poland's people would allow the elimination of separation of powers?

Answer 1

This is of course a speculative answer, since it is difficult to say what is really going on the heads of the people. I found a report of Public Radio International that states:

However, many Poles support the current powers and actually say these reforms are a divorce from old communist judicial systems.

Tomasz Sakiewicz, the editor-in-chief of right-wing newspaper Gazeta Polska and a supporter of drastic judicial reforms, says these changes aren’t about controlling the judiciary.

“We want to change it, to reform because it comes from communist times,” he says. “It’s completely broken by corruption — a mafia system.”

Sakiewicz says most Poles think the courts need reform. An opinion poll in May found 63 percent of Polish citizens think the judiciary needs to make some serious changes.

So it seems plausible to assume that the main reasons are:

1. Distrust in the justice system as being corrupt and needing supervision by politicians that seem at least more trustworthy than the justice system itself (note that many people in Poland actually trust the PiS and especially Jarosław Kaczyński, and the church endorses them),
2. Antagonism to communism: What comes from communist times, must be broken and a replacement is assumed to be better, even if imperfect,
3. Ignorance of the actual consequences and not believing in the criticism from EU or leftist media,
4. Actually, a desire for a strong leader and/or a contempt for democracy (although I suspect that this applies to only a minor part of the population, but as it exists in virtually any country, it surely also is present in Poland).