The narrative from the CSU people (and quite a few of the CDU) I saw on TV yesterday was very clear:
“We lost out to the AfD because we weren’t right-wing and xenophobic enough and we have to lurch massively rightwards immediately.”
Quite how that will sit with the Greens saying “We’re really concerned that the CDU is too xenophobic and right wing. We won’t agree to a coalition unless they reassure us that they will move a lot more in our direction”?
Oh, I don’t know. Looking at this lot:
Seems mostly exactly the same phrases and arguments.
