“We can’t change their minds about this. The best we can do is to manage the consequences of their decline in a way that harms us the least.”
There is no relief given here, just a depiction of the reality in Germany (and Europe in general, read: a deplorable vote for Angela Merkel). In Germany, choosing Merkel’s CDU is but a stop-gap to eventual destruction, choosing the others is but a fast-track to destruction. The AfD may offer some respite from the decline, but I’m not certain that they’re the ‘Jeffersonian democrats’ many make them out to be. I support them however to become such a force that it causes the CDU to change course and adopt a more sane approach to immigration and EU power grabs.
Bavaria’s Deplorable Elections and Merkel’s Triumph
German populism goes pop in Bavaria: After staging a high-profile fight over immigration against Chancellor Merkel, the Bavarian Christian Social Union got crushed in Sunday’s state elections. It got 37% of the vote, the lowest in its history. The biggest winner wasn’t the Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD), the right-wing populist party, but the ultra-left Greens, who won 17% of the vote vs. 10% for AfD. The Greens are now the second biggest party, surpassing the Social Democrats. The Greens are also the most pro-immigration party in Germany. There’s plenty of hand-wringing about the collapse of the political center, but the carnage leaves Merkel without a serious challenger anywhere in the political spectrum.
Remember, folks, you read it here first. I offered “a deplorable vote for Angela Merkel” more than a year ago.” That didn’t make me any friends in Washington or Berlin. In fact, one of Germany’s top news magazines interviewed me early in 2017 about President Trump. That didn’t go down too well, and the magazine suspended the reporter. I visited Berlin a few months later. No-one in Merkel’s government would take a meeting with me. I guess they didn’t like all the things I had written about Merkel’s immigration policy as a mode of national suicide.
