Congrats! 👏👏👏

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Hope people are safe

Beautiful Denmark.

Really interesting

Trump has indeed been a huge (electoral) gift to Liberals. But it needs to be seen if it will materialize in the next election (no later than September). Also, it happened by changing the salient issue. The ‘ballot box question’ has shifted to ‘who can best handle the economic effects of Trump?’

I must confess that I have no clue what he believes or does not believe. I just observe the economic damages he is causing to both the US and abroad.

But he has created uncertainty, which creates a lot of economic damage. This uncertainty will stay if he continually threatens to reinstate tariffs.So he might have reached, at least in part, its objective.

Interesting

Beautiful Copenhagen

Provocative question: Could they form a CDU/SpD/Grüne coalition without CSU (that opposed a coalition with Die Grüne)? I know it won’t happen. But can it ‘technically’ happen?

While agreeing totally with you, I see some silver lining in the results. Immigration seems to have been the salient issue in the campaign. This issue is owned by the Afd. But yet they are at ‘only’ 20%. On ‘their’ issue, they ‘underperformed’. A campaign on the economy, zB, may be tougher for them.

It will be important to disentangle Musk’s effect. Has Musk contributed to mobilizing equally pro-Afd and anti-Afd citizens? Or did he have no effect at all? Or did he have a negative/positive effect that counterbalanced the effect of other events (attacks, Merz’ move in Bundestag, usw)?

Am I right thinking that Afd seems to have reached, at least for the time being, a ceiling. Their vote intentions have been somewhat stagnant for weeks, despite the attacks (Magdeburg, Aschaffenburg, München, Berlin) and Musk’s ‘support’?

Same for me

Exactly what was on my list. I would add, how well/bad does Die Grüne do?