And who could blame them for feeling like they’ve been sold a bill of goods voting for the ‘moderate’?
Friedrich Merz was the centrist candidate. The Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader who promised to do something about the border, immigration, and holding the line on the economy with the debt brake intact and expensive, insane Green policies eventually vanquished. He was the reasonable, establishment, safe choice for those Germans who couldn’t quite bring themselves to vote for a ‘far-right’ party like Alice Weidel’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), with all of its baggage. Even though the AfD platform might be appealing in what they were advocating, voting for them was be a bridge too far for many Germans. They just could not bring themselves to do it.
Merz’s promises of change and stability where they were needed were comforting and within the familiar…
