In one of my posts yesterday, I went over how the French and German governments’ heavy-handed treatment – in some cases, outright persecution – of ‘right-wing’ parties and their members was backfiring on the establishment pretty spectacularly.
It has to be maddening to the Brahmins of Brussels and their aristocratic underlings parked in presidencies and chancellorships around European capitals to watch the hoi polloi numbers rise, undaunted, by their ever more desperate, ever less effective efforts at suppression.
…Back in 2018, Merz pledged he would cut support for the AfD in half and drive his party back to 40% supporter or higher. He has achieved very nearly the opposite, plunging his future government to the depths of unpopularity before it is even formed and ceding first place to precisely the people he promised to cut down to size. It is a farce…
