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The only answer to this that i can think of is a blue-black (blauschwarz) coalition. Where the role of the CDU is explicitly to guard the institutions, while the AfD gets to do what it wants on the state level. It would require unlikely dedication of the CDU to stop the AFD's expectable excesses.

Henning Ernst Mueller

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Jon Morris

Anti-Sabotage Operations Group

My thought is if BSW do get in they’ll end up allowing AfD to form the government here? I don’t know whether is a good outcome from all this

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@randomname99.bsky.social

The Nazis are back in East Germany… And as usual they’re being backed by the Russians.

randomname99.bsky.social

Back? Did they ever go away? I've made this point before, Germans did not pay a high enough price for their crimes. Far too many nazis went straight back to work as if nothing happened. And here we are, 40% are happy to do it all over again

Uh oh

At least we now know why the wall surrounding the German Democratic Republic was described as an "anti-fascist protective barrier". 🙄

Even if the AfD doesn't win power outright, their success makes parts of eastern Germany extremely difficult to govern. Mainstream parties don't want to work with them (for understandable reasons), so they need to pull everyone else together to form governments without them

But this is ultimately a trap as well because it forces voters into a choice between the AfD and a big blob of all other parties. It's perfect for the far-right because almost everyone who votes for the blob will likely be disappointed even if it wins. At best, the blob can buy time

The AfD is now so strong that it presents all other parties with a choice between the plague and cholera: Either cooperate, thereby granting more legitimacy to them. Or: Blob together, erasing all visible differences between the parties in the minds of ordinary voters

@jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social

If the other parties choose to blob together (which they will), they will paralyse each other for a few years and then we'll likely be back where we are now, just that the AfD will probably be even stronger. These coalitions are too broad to deliver what voters want, they're doomed to fail

Jakub Jaraczewski

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One critical data point on how AfD is getting bolder and bolder is that they dropped the whole across the Oder beers with Konfederacja right-wing alliance facade, and when Mentzen came to Berlin to shout about the Warsaw Uprising, Keubel just openly called Poles "the black people of Europe".

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