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One would think Germans would remember the perils of including an extremist party....
German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/europe/germany-friedrich-merz-immigration.html?smid=tw-share
Google translation of a Zeit headline:
The difference in Germany is that 12 members of the conservative parties voted against their leader. If only so-called conservatives in America had a gram of courage.
Correction, thanks to @guenther: the dozen did not vote against; they were absent.
It's not only American news media that wears blinders. The conservative German national daily, the FAZ, chose to downplay this historic rebuke of the right and play up Trump. With Google Translate:
I think what the Frankfurter meant is that Trump is effectively executing on his unserious policy. Not being serious as in being a serious person, but serious as in actually doing the demented things he promised.
As in seriously deranged.
@vruz @jeffjarvis Yes, the meaning goes in that way. It is not a pro Trump article.