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Once you chase your opponents through the legal system, that's when you start losing. This happened in the US. It's happening in France...
Complacency is a defining characteristic of many European politicians and almost a prerequisite for political success in some European countries. History becomes interesting when this complacency reaches the limits of reality and logic. This is happening in Germany right now.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German president, has actually called for the AfD to be banned. His old party, the SPD, is in complete decline. Its decline is easy to see in the election results, but in the centers of power in Berlin, it has been overshadowed by the party's relative success. It has had two chancellors in the past 25 years and has been part of a coalition government every year since 1998, except for four of them. The party is polling at 15% in the polls. It is the party of pensioners and welfare recipients. It is hard to understand why it is falling.
The German establishment is not used to losing. What low-IQ, bad losers everywhere do is start pointing fingers. Polls show the AfD at a steady 26%, up from 22% in the last election. There are signs of cyclical economic growth, but none that will bring lasting joy.
The most likely consequence of Steinmeier's comments is to push more voters into the hands of the AfD. Once you chase opponents through the legal system, that's when you start losing. This happened in the US. It's happening in France. Vladimir Putin is a politician who bans opposition parties. But he controls the legal system. If you're trying to play this game in a country like Germany, you're going to fail.
A political ban is difficult to achieve in Germany. The Constitutional Court has only banned two parties: the Socialist Party of Germany (Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands) in 1952, a Nazi party, and the Communist Party in 1956. In both cases, the constitutional argument was clear. These were parties that would not have allowed free elections if they had won power.
The procedure to ban the far-right NPD failed, despite the fact that the party was de facto a neo-Nazi party. The AfD also has members with far-right views, but it does not meet the criteria for a ban. It is nowhere near that. The German constitution sets a high standard. It is not enough to conclude that certain policies may violate the constitution. What matters is that the party, once in power, respects the constitutional order.
So if you want to beat the AfD, you will have to do it yourself in the elections. Politicians like Steinmeier don't know how to do this and, in their desperation, end up alienating more voters./ Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "Eurointelligence"
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