
Germany need to reform their economic policy so that the government can take huge loans and invest in defense, infrastructure and energy. Things will be tough but at least there’s one single obvious solution. If Germany (CDU + SPD) don’t, AfD will take over and Europe will experience something like the 1930s all over again.
The author mixing causality and correlation. Voters did not ditch SPD (or CDU) because they adopted a more negative stance on immigration. Rather the opposite. The main reason was of course that Scholz is a weak leader AND that Scholz and SPD hasn’t been able to turn the sinking ship that is Germany (which would require that SPD drop their neoliberal/third way agenda). Same goes for CDU but they had the benefit of being part of the pre-election opposition.