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Proof that sometimes, meeting unreasonable people halfway, only serves to legitimize them and drag you down. You just lose in every way. You have to stand your ground. You have to oppose fascism.
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Die Linke’s relative successes, and the accumulating failures of the Greens and the Social Democrats, are further grounds to reject the centrist liberal insistence on bending to the right to keep the far-right at bay. The centrist strategy, aside from being morally turpitudinous, has been a losing one; it only serves to legitimize far-right frameworks and bolster right-wing parties.
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Die Linke, meanwhile, gained significant ground with an unambiguously leftist economic platform, which also — and this is crucial — refused to throw minorities under the bus. They focused on so-called “bread and butter” issues like rent and the rising cost of living, transport, and pensions, and defended trans and immigrant rights. They ran as the only party to robustly oppose far-right politics with strong words and policies.
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The election results undermine claims that the left must embrace “anti-woke” positions if we are to challenge the racist far-right. One German party specifically deployed this strategy and failed to win enough votes to enter parliament.
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We don’t need to moderate fascism, we need to oppose it.
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