Opponents adopt each other’s policy angles as left launches movement to counter AfDLeftwing politicians are singing the praises of border control while rightwingers call for expanding the welfare state. primitive political certainties could be turned upside down in Germany this summer as the far ends of the country’s political spectrum both moot a “national social” turn.
A current leftwing movement soft-launching in Germany in August aims to fragment ways with what one of its founders calls the moralising” tendency of the left, in an attempt to win back working-class voters from the far-fair Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD).
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Source: theguardian.com