Friday, January 31, 2025

EU Populist Right Losing Stigma

Angela Merkel was chancellor of Germany for 16 years. She was known for her "y'all come" immigration policy that brought many hundreds of thousands of Islamic immigrants to Germany. 

You have to wonder, did she hate her own country so much she needed to destroy it? Her behavior had that sort of effect.

Her pro-immigrant policy is definitely in the rear view mirror now. The current leader of her CDU party Friedrich Merz has broken the EU-wide agreement not to accept the help of what Europeans call "far right" parties. 

Merz will likely propose anti-immigrant policies the rightist AfD party can vote for. He is tacitly accepting their help, he has already accepted several of their policies. The photo  in this column shows him clasping the hand of the AfD leader and smiling broadly. These other articles here and here further elaborate on this move.

This is a major change in European political affairs, one MAGA folk can cheer.