this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
70 points (93.8% liked)

Europe

8484 readers
1 users here now

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures

Rules

(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)

  1. Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
  2. No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
  3. No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.

Also check out [email protected]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
70
Scholz says that Germany needs to expand deportations of rejected asylum-seekers (english.elpais.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
50 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A leftist party can’t win over conservatives voters by imitating conservatives, but it sure can loose leftist voters by that.

Yes, it can.

I'm not sure I'd call the Social Democrats in either country country "leftist" (they're center-left and the "center" portion is more relevant), but it's fairly likely that the Scholz' party copying the Danish route would work. The issue is that the SPD's approach is that it was half-hearted. If you want to win over xenophobes you have to mean it. For now the assumption with voters is that Scholz and the other SPD people are all bark and no bite.