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Thuringia's CDU pushes through tax cuts with votes from AfD and FDP
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EDIT: Rebuttals are welcome, otherwise I have no idea what you are negatively reacting to.
The cordon sanitaire approach always had a definite expiry date. Once the excluded party grows big enough to be able to make or break majorities, it's inevitable that they will use that power.
Then what? Do we say that we will withdraw any law proposal or bill that doesn't have a majority without the excluded party? Then congratulations, you now gave them veto power over all legislation. They can set the agenda.
The goal of refusing cooperation was to deny them the change to grow bigger and win time to deal with them. If they grow bigger regardless, the strategy has outlived their usefulness. We need a new strategy.
As another comment says, the problem with CxU and FDP is not that they were seen to work together with the AfD. It's than on many issues they have the same or similar policies to the AfD.
The problem with that stance is that there are always behind the scenes talk, before the actual parliamentary vote. So the CDU and FDP-Legislators didn't just coincidentally voted the same way as there AfD colleagues. There worked actively together to let this law pass.
Through this they legitimises the Afd as just another party with a different ideological background, that can be worked with, if the situation requires it. The next logical step is to form a coalition to win the next administration, of course with the intend to control the minor partner AfD to prevent the radical stuff.
And we went through this exact sequence of events in the past. The OC Nazis rose to power the exact same way.
If you re in the minority you can't always get what you want. Make yourself more attractive to voters, instead of colluding with Nazis to get your way. Negotiate & compromise harder with the other parties, instead of grabbing the get now & pay later with literal blood option.
But that is hard & working with Nazis is easy.
I will accept that perhaps this might be the case in the specific case, and then I agree with your judgement.
But we have seen the AfD exploiting this in secret ballot votes, from Thuringia for the OG fuckup all the way to the recent repeat elections in Berlin where they wanted to cast doubts on whether the CDU-SPD coalition was voted in by them in the end (and iirc, they pulled something similar with a Left mayor in one of the districts).
I stand by my main thesis, the strategy has an expiry date and it also hasn't produced the expected results. AfD has grown despite this strategy. There needs to be an escalation of measures against them, because otherwise thinking that only refusing to vote the same way as them is enough to push them away verges increasingly on Aktionismus.