Now I see many demonize the AfD as nazi this or nazi that but wasn’t it founded by two former CDU members Bernd Lucke and Alexander Gauland in opposition to Auntie Merkle’s response to the refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016?
Seems now to have grown to reflect characteristics associated with social conservatism and also encompasses nativist, populist and even left-wing elements within Germany.
From what I’ve read there’s been a lot of CDU voters who have shifted away from the CDU and moved towards the AfD.
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