Hugely disproportionate power? They got their candidate for Bundesverfassungsgericht tanked by cursed CDU backbenchers. That is not the feat of a party with hugely disproportionate power.

elite liberals more than even right-wingers seem to believe that liberalism has no popular support or organic base and is primarily an elite imposition

Trump policies also mean accusing people of being criminals with completely phony charges, as in the case of Mr Garcia, and then shipping them off with little to no due process to an extralegal space in a third country.

I don't think it is "hiding behind moral superiority" to say "this is enough, no coalition with these people". Where do you draw the line?

Maybe not all of their voters are Nazis, but there sure are many Mitläufer. The party as a whole is right wing extremist, their reps are "völkisch", and there are many cases of Neonazis in the party.

satisfying one demand will only lead to even more crass and cruel demand. Conservatives, where do you draw the line, when is it enough?

What I'm aiming at: if you're suggesting that the CDU should satisfy the demands of AfD voters, then where do you draw the line? Pro AfD media like Reichelt's outfit already cheer on the Everglades concentration camp. I think a lot of right wingers are addicted to humiliation of others, and

What TV do they watch in West Virginia? Do you think that could play a role? If FOX or Newsmax or whatever tells the people there that immigrant hordes are flooding the country and eating pets, should we then tell the people "yeah, that's a valid concern"?

also notable that these are phrases Curtis Yarvin created to describe his worldview, times adopting those is troubling.

Actually Robin the literature shows that if you appease the far right on migration, you actually just end up strengthening support for them, because implicitly you confirm the image of migration as a “problem” (nonsense if you look at the macro data). We must challenge their psychotic worldview

Das kann man sich nicht ausdenken. Nun teilt Stefan Weber auf X mit: "Die Sichtweise der #CDU, dass Plagiatsvorwürfe gegen Frau #FraukeGersdorf erhoben wurden, ist falsch"

Die "Plagiatsvorwürfe gegen Brosius-Gersdorf" beziehen sich auf einen Vergleich von Brosiuis-Gersdorfs Dissertation, die sie 1997 fertigstellte, mit der Dissertation ihres Mannes, die er 1998 (!) fertigstellte. Auf dieser Grundlage argumentiert also die Union? #BrosiusGersdorf

Top of his post reaches a higher altitude than his penthouse in One57

if I were a Brexiteer, I would simply rage against the dying of the light

Pathetic and reprehensible sanewashing