Here we go again. Another election, another shift back towards the centre – and another shrieking meltdown from the mainstream media about the ‘far-right’. Not to mention the ludicrous insistence that woke, wet, establishment creeps are somehow ‘conservative’.
Friedrich Merz is expected to be the clear winner of the German election. The question now for the conservative leader is how fast and with whom he can cobble together a government – and whether the US will seek to influence the process.
Despite a historically strong showing by anti-establishment nationalists in a ballot that extended Europe’s recent lurch to the right, Merz’s Christian Democratic Union was on track to win the vote by a comfortable margin, according to early exit polls.
This is the same CDU, remember, which presided over the twin disasters of Germany’s so-called ‘energiewende’ and open-borders Europe.
The first, the climate-deranged dismantling of reliable energy in favour of ruinously expensive and unreliable ‘renewables’, not only made Germany critically dependent on Russian gas right as the Russo-Ukrainian War was kicking off, but has driven the country’s famed heavy industries away – to China. Volkswagen, BASF, Bosch and BMW are all closing their German plants, sacking tens of thousands of workers and relocating to China.
The second, Angela ‘Mutti’ Merkel’s unilateral, knee-jerk decision to throw open the gates of Europe to the Middle East and Africa, has been an unalloyed calamity for the entire European continent. Millions of unemployable, fighting-age Muslim men have flooded Europe, unleashing a wave of violent crime, including soaring rape rates, while sucking up vast amounts of generous European welfare.
So, tell us again how this is a ‘conservative’ party?
Still, given how far left Europe has listed, this is at least something of a correction back to the centre – just the latest in a wave of such course corrections across Western democracies.
Initial projections by public broadcaster ARD gave the CDU and its CSU sister party in Bavaria a joint 29% of the votes, followed by the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, with 19.6%. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party looked to have scored 16%, its worst score since the late 19th century.
Voters elected a fragmented parliament, with at least five parties likely to make it into the house and two others just below the 5% threshold needed to secure representation. The more parties that make it in, the harder it would be for Merz to secure a coherent alliance with a solid majority of seats […]
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebrated a record election result that fuelled its wildest hopes of one day entering government. “We have achieved a historic result,” the party’s top candidate Alice Weidel, 46, told party supporters cheering and waving the German national flag at an election night party in Berlin […]
France and Germany have been hamstrung in recent months after their respective governments lost their parliamentary majorities. Merz’s election as chancellor would mark a first step toward Europe rebuilding its leadership.
Meaning, the WEF-led establishment reasserting its control. Mostly by doing everything in their power to put a lid on the increasingly restive hoi polloi who are sick of a cosy club of woke elites ruining their countries.
On paper, CDU and AfD would have a crushing majority in parliament. But Merz has said he would under no circumstance form a ruling alliance with the AfD […]
Merz is likely to initially sound out the center-left SPD.
So, cosying up to a socialist party with its very own ‘queer’ wing? Remind me again how this is a ‘conservative’ party?
Initial results showed the AfD had fallen just short of recent opinion polls but was still poised to achieve its biggest score at a national election since its creation in 2013, almost double its 2021 score.
Pollsters attributed the AfD’s gains to several factors, such as the outgoing government’s deep unpopularity, Germany’s second yearly recession in a row, high levels of immigration, voter fatigue about a costly green transition, and violent crimes by refugees and asylum seekers in recent months […]
The US administration has hinted it wanted whoever wins the election to bring the AfD in as a ruling partner. Elon Musk, who advises Trump, has urged German voters to vote for the far-right party. Last week, Vice President JD Vance suggested that the US might withdraw its military presence in Germany if the country didn’t change its speech laws, an AfD position.
So, the AfD is against having SWAT teams raid peoples’ houses over posting on social media that illegal immigrants should be deported? How on Earth is that ‘far-right’?
A moniker, by the way, which the Wall Street Journal sprinkles like confetti in their supposed ‘hard news’. Now, when I went to journalism school, we were sternly warned against inserting opinions into hard news reporting. ‘Far-right’ is an opinion: not a fact. More pointedly, when was the last time you read or heard a mainstream media journalist referring to the ‘far-left’?
The course correction against the headwinds of the Long March through the Institutions has a way to go, yet.
