

But the CDU is also promising to tackle immigration, and has actually delivered on some of it during their government. They were halved this election.
The fascist can always jump to the next topic. Immigration isn’t even the original boogeyman, there’s always another “other”. You can’t beat them at their own game, they’ll always promise a more radical, more “effective” solution, meaning you’ll never “do enough”. The only thing you’ll do is legitimize their viewpoint.
You need to address why people are looking for a boogeyman. And that’s because many of them appear to be worse off than they were a decade ago. They’re angry at traditional parties because they messed up economically and standard of living is going down. Address that, and you take away the oxygen that fuels the fire. Immigration didn’t cause the standard of living to go down, promising you’ll end it legitimizes those who claim it does.




Eh, we’ve kinda seen the opposite in the Netherlands. Far-right party got in right-wing coalition, things obviously failed to work out for them as they were completely dysfunctional, and they were punished in the next election. In countries without FPTP it’s much harder for these kinds of parties to get in control.