Even appart from the Hitler thing, we had fucking Schröder, now Putins best friend and Russian gas lobbyist.
The must’ve learned this kind of polemics when Andreas Scheuer (CSU) visited Ron DeSantis earlier this year. Seems like they want to bring some of the American style of politics over here. Forgetting, that even the “liberal” Democrats are about as far right as the CDU/CSU would be here. But hey, at least their “Brandmauer” against the right wing parties still stands, right? Sadly it’s made out of matches and sits on wheels.
For the interested foreign readers: our conservative parties are turning into right wing extremists and cooperate more and more with the Nazipart AfD and the slightly less Naziparty FW. The head of the bavarian conservatives and prime minister of the state of bavaria just defended his vice from the FW for his “youth sins” of glorifying the holocaust and demanding another genocide against the jews. The CDU has a guy who is peddling the same replacement theory as Anders Breivik and sporting lots of antisemitic conspiracy theories. He also used to be the head of the german interior intelligence, that is supposed to prevent Nazis from infiltrating the government.
Thanks to the strong support of the “conservatives”, Germany is on a fast track to fascism again. And a lot of it is quite close to the 1920s original series.
Damn I didn’t realize it was getting bad over there as well, I thought the CDU was still sane (even if it was corrupt). I guess it was a question of time
our conservative parties are turning into right wing extremists
Not really.
They are not extremists per se and the CDU/CSU has always had a populist right wing.
One of the more positive aspects of Merkel as party leader was that she managed to keep the more extreme voices in the Union somewhat in check and (at least temporarily) shift their social policy slightly more left (or rather less right).
Now that Merz and his ilk are gaining power again we just see them bouncing back to their old mindset from the last millennium.
