“I have nothing to take back,” Merz said on Monday when asked about comments he made about how cities in Germany look and why the government needs to step up deportations
“Just ask your daughters, if you have any, what I might have meant,” he told reporters in Berlin. “Everyone will confirm that there’s a problem, especially after dark.”
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Just my kind of humour.
What he is acctually doing fits the nice German job description of “Steigbügelhalter” (someone who holds the stirrup for some big wig to get on their high horse more easily) to the far right.
But why would the media acknowledge and report the fact that politicians are spouting a whole bunch of lies?
Why is it so hard for these idiots to understand that:
A) fascists will vote the percieved OG fascist party, not the copycat
B) people who vote CDU and don’t like AfD will be alienated by this move
C) if AfD is a problem to democracy then becoming the AfD is a problem too
Exactly, your first point says it all. People will always go for the original.
Instead of having a own program and plan, they just say we onlz deport 50% of what AFD says…
With this tactic we are doomed in Germany and AFD will win the next election.
Yes he does. At the same time he distances himself from AfD, says he wants nothing to do with their far-right stuff.
No, seriously.
I guess there were one or two polls that told him that this strategy works - don’t fight them, simply replace them. It isn’t a done deal though, and I for one hope he and his party fail miserably. Not that I want AfD to win.
Always works! I mean, it will work this time. It has to
Very unsurprising, unless your perception of the CDU is purely Merkel. And it’s not even a problem, because the problem with AfD is not that there aren’t enough opposing options, but that the AfD carries a wide range of “right”, since the majority of them only have two major parties suitable to their opinions. Regardless how much you hate this whole range and view it as the same bullshit, it makes an impactful difference that each of them get represented individually.