AfD Triumphs in German State Elections: A Wake-Up Call for Merz

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : To renew Germany's social market economy, they should implement all the labour market, pension, tax and other reforms agreed this summer with their Social Democrat coalition partners - and more.
52% : The Basic Law contains a ban on anti-democratic parties and speech both to prevent a return of an extreme right nationalist party like the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), as well as to prevent the Communists from taking power.
49% : While I continue to think globalization, the liberal world order, the EU, NATO, and the like have mostly been beneficial -- and certainly think we should be doing everything we can to help Ukraine stave off Russian aggression -- it's hard to argue that the negative externalities haven't hurt working-class citizens.
44% : The limited use of referenda, which had the misuse of referenda in Weimar in mind, limits direct democracy and has spared Germany from a Brexit type quagmire.

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