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This sounds like a populist victory waiting to happen
More like fascism currently happening.
It's very revealing how casually liberals spit out populist as an insult. The derogatory use of the word unmasks their real conviction that majority rule is only admirable when the majority thinks like them. Strip away the varnish and their ideal is not democracy at all, but a stewardship by the enlightened elites who keep the unwashed masses at bay.
You're right, populism can be good. The word I should have used here is exploitative demagogue.
Merz is preparing the weapons so that when the AFD, which he will paint as opposition to his Fascism-lite regime eventually wins, they can do full Fascism.