Summary
Germany’s far-right AfD has pulled even with the CDU/CSU alliance in national polling, each securing 24% support in the latest INSA survey.
The poll follows February’s election, where the CDU/CSU led, and comes amid ongoing coalition talks between conservatives and the center-left SPD.
AfD co-chair Alice Weidel declared, “There’s no way around the AfD anymore.” Major parties continue to rule out cooperation with the AfD.
Meanwhile, coalition negotiations face budget disputes as economic pressure mounts from a potential US-EU trade war and Trump’s new 20% tariffs on EU imports.
What the actual fuck is wrong with these people
Mental illness. I’m serious.
Nuts. Please learn from the disaster in America.
There’s another article up saying that “Germany is going back to the 1930s”. While I think that that’s probably over-the-top, what happened in Germany in the 1930s was in significant part that the US had the Great Depression when German industry was desperately dependent on US finance. Then it was followed up by US markets closing up, which exacerbated things. Germany ultimately was hit harder than the US economically.
I don’t believe that Germany in 2025 has the same degree of extreme exposure to the US economy that it did in the 1930s, but I do think that there is a general problem that Trump’s tariffs, if left in place for any length of time, are probably going to produce a lot of wealth destruction, not just in the US, but also other places. Economic hardship tends to breed political extremism, so it could encourage political extremism in countries other than the US.
So supporting far-right narratives and being blatantly populistic only to then backtrack on a lot they have said doesn’t seem to work out for the conservatives? Wow, colour me surprised, no one could have seen this coming, my flabber is totally gasted
You want another Trump/Putin, this is how you get another one. Come on Germany! Do better!
