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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There were elections recently in Germany. And as many people and pollsters had predicted, the conservative parties, and there are two of them, won nearly, almost, 50% of the vote.
The Christian Democratic Union, under Mr. Friedrich Merz, will be the—probably the new chancellor. And then there is the Alternative für Deutschland, the AfD. This is the more controversial conservative.
We in the United States wouldn’t see them so controversial. But for European socialists, they are considered ultra-ultra-right. They believe in things like the ability to buy guns or to close borders. And in the United States that would be…
