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"The AfD has gotten louder and stronger last year, and it's reaching further and further into other parties' voter bases" They reached into actual daily politi

• nicbou 3y ago
  This is when I started paying attention. The anti-immigration sentiment has flared up and it became advantageous to fan those flames, even as a boring centrist party. The overton window has shifted right even in left-leaning, immigrant-packed forums. I am stunned by the sort of stuff I see on reddit these days. They think that they'll only come for the other immigrants. I'm not going to wait and see.
• nvm0n2 3y ago
  Yes, and the notorious meeting where the AfD supposedly planned to evict everyone: 1. Wasn't an AfD meeting 2. Had CDU politicians there too Reality is, the AfD's positions are popular and Scholz tries to respond to that, whilst also claiming his opponents are a threat to democracy. But that is a risky strategy. After all, if one party can make a policy that another party cannot then campaign to reverse, then who is really dismantling democracy?