He is trump lite. He is not at all „decent leader material“ by any stretch. His views align far too often with the far (not to say extreme) right wing party AFD.
Another similarity with Trump is that half of his own party tried their best to keep him from any positions of power for more than a decade because he is such a loose cannon with zero experience in governing anything. He has “good” industry connections though…
He is trump lite. He is not at all „decent leader material“ by any stretch. His views align far too often with the far (not to say extreme) right wing party AFD.
Another similarity with Trump is that half of his own party tried their best to keep him from any positions of power for more than a decade because he is such a loose cannon with zero experience in governing anything. He has “good” industry connections though…
Are you sure? Doesn’t sound like that to me: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PRsF-yy6RGc (only German subtitles)
Can you please share some concrete examples to back that up?
He is and he has been for a long time. It’s not subtle. Presumably you’re not German?
https://www.om-online.de/politik/methode-der-rechtspopulisten-merz-erntet-nun-auch-kritik-aus-den-eigenen-reihen-139017
https://taz.de/Totalausfall-von-Friedrich-Merz/!6071285/
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/merz-kritik-100.html
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/parteien/migration-pro-asyl-cdu-merz-habeck-102.html
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/merz-linke-kritik-100.html
That’s true. Thank you for this material for insight.