“I have nothing to take back,” Merz said on Monday when asked about comments he made about how cities in Germany look and why the government needs to step up deportations
“Just ask your daughters, if you have any, what I might have meant,” he told reporters in Berlin. “Everyone will confirm that there’s a problem, especially after dark.”
Yes he does. At the same time he distances himself from AfD, says he wants nothing to do with their far-right stuff.
No, seriously.
I guess there were one or two polls that told him that this strategy works - don’t fight them, simply replace them. It isn’t a done deal though, and I for one hope he and his party fail miserably. Not that I want AfD to win.
Has that kind of strategy worked anywhere else? I seem to remember some talking head saying that people who want to be like that tend to vote for the OGs regardless of what other parties do, although it was years ago.
What you say has been the case for roughly a decade in D-land. No national majorities yet, but inching closer.
I guess they have thought long and hard on how to crack that nut, and decided that putting the failed tactic into overdrive instead of coming up with a new one is the way to go. Or it took them that long to fill the ranks with far-right people “willing to do what it takes”.