The current German government seems to be hugely unpopular. The AfD opposition is still leading in the polls, and the Christian Democrats who are being politically dominated by their socialist junior coalition partners must feel shivers running down their spines as their chancellor Friedrich Merz has been making an absolute fool of himself by breaking almost every pre-election promise.
Allthough technically the next federal elections are still four years away the Christian Dems must sense that due to the weakness of Merz and his coalition there might be early elections just next year.
The CDU is definitely split between diehard green-groveling Merkelites and traditional conservatives. The latter could easily face the loss of their constituencies to the AfD unless the Merz misery in Berlin continues.
Add to that the five state elections in 2026 of which those in Baden-Württemberg (March 8), Rhineland-Palatinate (March 22) and Berlin (September 20) are crucial for the CDU.
All things considered the CDU conservatives will have to stab Friedrich Merz in the back, the sooner the better.
The result could be a minority CDU government occasionally supported by the AfD which is unthinkable at the time because of the "firewall" in place against the AfD. The mainstream media would of course raise hell, bad-mouthing and bullying the dissenters every step of the way.
Angela Merkel would phone in from her hide out only to demand the restoration of the "firewall" just as she did in 2020 when she
commanded the dismissal of the newly elected libertarian Prime Minister Thomas Kemmrich of Thuringia.
I'm optimistic that the EU as we know it will be long gone in 2035. There may be another organization by the same name though.
I'm not so optimistic that the German automobile industry understands this as well as they keep falling over themselves closing plants for combustors (killing tens of thousands of jobs in the support industry) only to increase E.V. production.
