What a difference a couple of months of lies and betrayals make.
Two days ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, led by Alice Weidel, was in a statistical tie with Chancellor-Elect Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU). AfD was, however, still iced out of any government participation, even as Merz lied and finagled his way in efforts to form a coalition government with anyone but them.
The German public, watching Merz’s negotiations go down, their votes for change cast aside in the frenzied deal making, and their few remaining freedoms cast to the wind, had an almost instantaneous case of buyers’ remorse.
As of the poll released this morning, Germans have confirmed they are disillusioned with a government that hasn’t even formed yet, are rejecting the malleable Merz…
Migrations from other parties – esp. CDU/CSU – to AfD are sticky. For a time…
