Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
His reaction so far: “We will not change course.” Imagine being so detached that you don’t understand why your party is going under. Even in polls, like 80% of participants say he is damaging his party.
I can’t believe that he doesn’t understand what his actions are doing, he just doesn’t care. I think he is following the FDP-model: once you’re in government, pass as many neoliberal bullshit, so your rich buddies can become even richer and reward you with a cushy “job”, and don’t care about tanking your parties ratings in the process, because when it is in the opposition, your buddies that own the media will “help” the voters forget all your bullshit within 2-3 legislative periods.
Although with Merz the plan might be even more nefarious: Tank the CDU, so the AfD can establish a nice fascist dictatorship and pass as many anti-consumer and anti-worker laws as they want without having to worry about elections.
Neoliberal centrist politics has had it so good for so long. Now that kind of politics is dying rapidly in many places. Fascists are making gains everywhere and only the left has a chance of stopping them.
Also: „We just need to explain our actions better”
Merz doesn’t want to change anything, yet he wants different results. Insanity.
To be fair, it worked for decades for them