The Right Rises in Germany.

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Germany took a big step to the right as voters went to the polls over the weekend, rebuking years of poor economic growth and unchained illegal immigration under the existing leftist government led by Olaf Scholz.

The details: The big winner was the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by Friedrich Merz, which took 28 percent of the vote. The CDU ran a coalition with its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU).

  • A close second: The “far right“ Alternative for Germany (AfD) party had an impressive turnout with 20.8 percent of the vote.
  • The big loser was the current ruling liberal party, headed by Olaf Schultz — the Social Democratic Party, which only captured 16 percent percent of the vote.

How we got here: The German economy has been ravaged by bad policies like overregulation and green energy mandates—with industrial production (think automakers) down 20 percent since 2017.

  • Energy prices: Additionally, the war in Ukraine has led to rising energy costs, as the country has relied on Russian natural gas. Wholesale electricity is nearly four times higher than it was pre-war.
  • Immigration: Between 2014-2022 Germany imported nearly three million people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine. And as of 2022, about 28 percent of its population were foreign-born.

Germany’s new leader: Friedrich Merz is seen as an establishment conservative, and his CDU is the same party as former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was the godmother of unchecked immigration into Germany. The twist is that while Merkel lurched the party to the left, Merz seeks to set it back towards the right—specifically on combatting immigration, lowering taxes, and removing regulations on businesses.

Winners and losers: The real winner was the global right-wing populist movement. The losers were the mainstream media. The AfD, just like Trump, was slandered by the mainstream media as “far right” and frequently slandered as Nazis and authoritarians. But again and again, voters are tuning out the noise.

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