La Merkel critica il leader del suo partito CDU per aver collaborato con tedesco di estrema destra

Can sb bring me up to speed? In which ways is the CDU cooperating with the far-right?

Considering that the AfD was the direct result of her policies… I don’t think she is the best person to criticize Merz.

Funny how she is complaining about that while ignoring her role in creating a feeling in the people that they need a far-right party to reverse most of her policies.

Could somebody criticize her for cooperating with the Russian far-right government?

She is not wrong. When PVV started gaining more ground in the Netherlands, other right wing parties like VVD who previously didn’t want to work with them thought they could steal some voters back by saying they are open to collaborate with PVV. All it accomplished was that they normalized the PVV in people’s eyes and caused more people to vote for them.

A big mistake happening now in politics everywhere (see also Harris’ campaign against Trump) is that many parties believe by leaning further right they can win votes from the ‘sensible right wing voters’ against the extreme right wing. But they all fail to understand that right wing voters already have their pick to vote for so they gain little while they are actively losing left/centrist voters who become disillusioned with the party’s leaning to the right.

Then as the right wing takeover continues they will blame the disillusioned voters for not voting for ‘the lesser evil’ as if people should be fine making compromise after compromise because the political leaders are populist trend chasers.

Funny, because Merkel (a disguised Green) in a conservative party made the AfD into a big and competitive party in Germany with her policies. Can you blame people or AfD for resisting Merkel? I don’t think so.

The policies CDU is now putting forward to “solve” the “problem” are, and the CDU knows it, illegal under the current European treaties Germany is a part of.

If they convince they voters that these policies are what is needed to “solve” the “problem,” what’s gonna happen when the CJEU says you can not do these policies as long as you are in the EU?

Merz has started a path that eventually leads to Dexit.

I‘ve always been a fan of Angie on a lot of topics and while she‘s not wrong here, I don’t think it’s appropriate for her to sit on the high horse, when she’s the one who steered the country into all this mess regarding migration. Politicians have to get their hands dirty now to clean up her mistakes.

Merkel herself didn’t mind co-operating with Vladimir Putin, a human-rights violator.

I think she should just not speak because everything that is happening right now is her fault.

The far right’s rise is directly tied to the decade and a half of her policy.

Die Afd only exists because of Merkel

She’s the worst politician in the last hundred years and her every policy has been an abject disaster for Germany and Europe. The old hag needs to be fully denounced and forcibly ejected from public life. The raw arrogance and audacity that she still displays is grotesque. She genuinely needs to shut up and hope nobody remembers she exists, yet she keeps forcing herself into the public sphere again and again.

Now, the former Stasi member Angela Merkel is giving moral lessons after being the worst European politician since 1945.

Rich from Merkel, since she even now can’t admit wrongdoing to cooperating with Russian nazi state for years even after 2008 occupation of Georgia, and 2014 occupation of Ukraine.

You create a problem, losing in the course of that action any credibility you or your party could have that you are against mass migration, and then you cry because AfD is at 20%.

I would never vote for AfD, but if they get second place (like the Nazis did in 1930, and then got first place in 1933) it will be her fault.

Merkel should just stfu probably.