Das Narrativ vom »gefährlichen Ausländer« gehört zum Markenkern der AfD. Sie hat es mit langem Atem strategisch in den Mainstream eingeschleust und die Union überlistet: mit gezielter Realitätsverzerrung.

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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      They didn’t exactly split tbh, the populist wing of the party (called the ERG) just gradually became the dominant one during Brexit (after Theresa May resigned). Today they have so few seats (120 as opposed to 300+) that there is even just numerically less room for moderate (aka. One Nation Tory) MPs.

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        Yeah but they also did a phenomenally bad job at keeping the population from descending into poverty because they wanted to line their own pockets. In Germany, people are still better off on average than in the UK so their ignorance and lethargy are still keeping the conservatives afloat. Once standard of living drops to UK levels, things might actually change but then it’s Germans, so they might very well not lol