>After the judges’ disaster, it becomes clear: Friedrich Merz’s biggest problem is the cultural warfare of his parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn.
>[…]
>He’s fully aware of the right-wing populist energy he’s playing. It’s a higher level of naiveté than Merz’s: Spahn believes he can control what he’s handling. Apparently, the parliamentary group leader thinks he can use right-wing populist energy against his political opponents like a weapon. By this Friday at the latest, he should have realized: No way.
>The culture war waged by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, right-wing media, and influencers, and directed against Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, nominated by the SPD as a constitutional judge, had, within a few days, developed a momentum of its own, a desire to hunt, that was greater than party discipline, more exciting than loyalty to the Chancellor, more insistent than the tradition of the ruling CDU party, more savage than the conservatism he had learned.
>Consequently, the parliamentary group leader was no longer able to control the situation. So, when Spahn could no longer contain himself, he escalated the situation even further, fueling the rumor that the SPD candidate, in addition to her shameful, sheer left-wing leanings, had also plagiarized her doctoral thesis. This was then rejected by even the most cynical of plagiarism hunters. We’ve come to this: that the leader of a CDU/CSU parliamentary group is resorting to methods that even the notorious inquisitor Stefan Weber considers too dirty.
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>After the judges’ disaster, it becomes clear: Friedrich Merz’s biggest problem is the cultural warfare of his parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn.
>[…]
>He’s fully aware of the right-wing populist energy he’s playing. It’s a higher level of naiveté than Merz’s: Spahn believes he can control what he’s handling. Apparently, the parliamentary group leader thinks he can use right-wing populist energy against his political opponents like a weapon. By this Friday at the latest, he should have realized: No way.
>The culture war waged by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, right-wing media, and influencers, and directed against Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, nominated by the SPD as a constitutional judge, had, within a few days, developed a momentum of its own, a desire to hunt, that was greater than party discipline, more exciting than loyalty to the Chancellor, more insistent than the tradition of the ruling CDU party, more savage than the conservatism he had learned.
>Consequently, the parliamentary group leader was no longer able to control the situation. So, when Spahn could no longer contain himself, he escalated the situation even further, fueling the rumor that the SPD candidate, in addition to her shameful, sheer left-wing leanings, had also plagiarized her doctoral thesis. This was then rejected by even the most cynical of plagiarism hunters. We’ve come to this: that the leader of a CDU/CSU parliamentary group is resorting to methods that even the notorious inquisitor Stefan Weber considers too dirty.
!ping Germany