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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.
Has that kind of strategy worked anywhere else? I seem to remember some talking head saying that people who want to be like that tend to vote for the OGs regardless of what other parties do, although it was years ago.
What you say has been the case for roughly a decade in D-land. No national majorities yet, but inching closer.
I guess they have thought long and hard on how to crack that nut, and decided that putting the failed tactic into overdrive instead of coming up with a new one is the way to go. Or it took them that long to fill the ranks with far-right people "willing to do what it takes".
Always works! I mean, it will work this time. It has to
I would like someone to point to one issue Germany has been on the right side of without copying France's homework since Bismarck stitched it together like Frankenstein.
Well Germany was one of the founding members of the EU and it's the largest military donor of Ukraine after the USA but yeah that's about all I can remember
I count those as copying France's homework but we can say they put their own spin on it, they didn't just copy it word for word
Not participating in the bombing of Libya
That's fair, we found the one
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.