I can't source the following claim, but I recall hearing that Merz openly admitted post-election that few people in the CDU actually believed in the anti-immigration propaganda that they were putting out before the election. He said something that translates like this: 'I know that we campaigned on lowering immigration, but most of us don't actually believe in it.'
Now, if he is doing anything at all, it is only in the hope of co-opting this issue which is helping catapult the marginally more Right-Wing AfD to now becoming more popular in polls than all other parties. Merz also said something to the effect that preventing the AfD from growing stronger is his main objective. He also said that he would never form a coalition with them. He is a clear enemy of anyone who wants Germany to move Rightward.
I have heard a few days ago, however, that Merz commanded all CDU politicians to stop talking about banning the AfD. My suspicion is that the AfD is now too popular for there to be widespread support for an outright ban, and thus the CDU is being harmed when it engages in such talk, especially when the reason why the AfD is now #1 in polls is because CDU voters started jumping ship post-election (if only the idiots jumped ship a few months earlier instead of electing Merz!). In other words, if they hope to gain those lost voters back from the AfD, being outwardly hostile to the AfD will most likely simply lead them to embrace the AfD further. Of course, that doesn't mean that they won't continue to work towards banning it. They will keep aiming for it. It is just that they no longer overtly support the ban for optical reasons.
I also recall that the homosexual Jens Spahn, a high-ranking CDU politician, went to CPAC or some similar event recently. All of this stuff is to do with the CDU trying to prevent the growing realization among German voters that they aren't a Right-Wing party. They have an image to save. This truth has been obvious to us for a long time: they're full of women leaders like Mama Merkel and AKK, homosexuals like Spahn, and Merz himself is associated with BlackRock. What is 'Right-Wing' about all that? But German voters are slow to realize it. Many CDU voters are old fogies who still trust the German mass media, which, since it is generally very Left-biased, makes the CDU out to be more Right-Wing than it really is.
I can't source the following claim, but I recall hearing that Merz openly admitted post-election that few people in the CDU actually believed in the anti-immigration propaganda that they were putting out before the election. He said something that translates like this: 'I know that we campaigned on lowering immigration, but most of us don't actually believe in it.'
Now, if he is doing anything at all, it is only in the hope of co-opting this issue which is helping catapult the marginally more Right-Wing AfD to now becoming more popular in polls than all other parties. Merz also said something to the effect that preventing the AfD from growing stronger is his main objective. He also said that he would never form a coalition with them. He is a clear enemy of anyone who wants Germany to move Rightward.
I have heard a few days ago, however, that Merz commanded all CDU politicians to stop talking about banning the AfD. My suspicion is that the AfD is now too popular for there to be widespread support for an outright ban, and thus the CDU is being harmed when it engages in such talk, especially when the reason why the AfD is now #1 in polls is because CDU voters started jumping ship post-election (if only the idiots jumped ship a few months earlier instead of electing Merz!). In other words, if they hope to gain those lost voters back from the AfD, being outwardly hostile to the AfD will most likely simply lead them to embrace the AfD further. Of course, that doesn't mean that they won't continue to work towards banning it. They will keep aiming for it. It is just that they no longer overtly support the ban for optical reasons.
I also recall that the homosexual Jens Spahn, a high-ranking CDU politician, went to CPAC or some similar event recently. All of this stuff is to do with the CDU trying to prevent the growing realization among German voters that they aren't a Right-Wing party. They have an image to save. This truth has been obvious to us for a long time: they're full of women leaders like Mama Merkel and AKK, homosexuals like Spahn, and Merz himself is associated with BlackRock. What is 'Right-Wing' about all that? But German voters are slow to realize it. Many CDU voters are old fogies who still trust the German mass media, which, since it is generally very Left-biased, makes the CDU out to be more Right-Wing than it really is.