They went so hard for the center that they came out on the neoliberal and now even right side in the end, which made them loose a big chunk of their liberal core voters. One recent quote of Olaf Scholz was “We have to deport on a large scale again”.
What’s going on in Germany that’s causing this neo Nazi rise?
Similar stuff as in the US. Years of normalizing hate speech and Xenophobia by the right wing did a lot of damage to public discourse. Covid measures caused an explosive growth of conspiracy theories and anti democratic ideology.
Has the CDU gotten more extreme the last few decades?
Definitely, I hate the CDU but I have to say that Angela Merkel was quite the humanist compared to Friedrich Merz, who is a right wing populist and an agent of high finance, just like Alice Weidel from AfD.
They went so hard for the center that they came out on the neoliberal and now even right side in the end, which made them loose a big chunk of their liberal core voters. One recent quote of Olaf Scholz was “We have to deport on a large scale again”.
Similar stuff as in the US. Years of normalizing hate speech and Xenophobia by the right wing did a lot of damage to public discourse. Covid measures caused an explosive growth of conspiracy theories and anti democratic ideology.
Definitely, I hate the CDU but I have to say that Angela Merkel was quite the humanist compared to Friedrich Merz, who is a right wing populist and an agent of high finance, just like Alice Weidel from AfD.