Nobody wants to sit next to constitutional enemies. Especially not if the postulate is still to apply that there should be no democratic party “to the right” of the Union. Those who want to prevent this either have to sit on the far right themselves or deny their neighbors sitting there democratic maturity. So now the Union and AfD are neighbors in the plenary session of the Bundestag. If one does not want to agree with the simple-minded view that there are only parties in the middle in the democratic spectrum, one can say: The CDU / CSU parliamentary group is not so wrongly seated where it is now, even if one shows its resistance to the parliamentary one Can understand repotting. This does not result in any spiritual closeness to the AfD; they would hardly be subordinate to the FDP, which has so far taken the place.
No, it's about the political label.
While the left “likes to sit on the far left”, the word “right” is already contaminated.
For a long time it was simply the counterpart to the left.
Today it is often equated with “right-wing extremists”.
That has consequences.
If, for example, right-wing publishers or authors are mentioned, then there is often no need for discussion.
They're just outside - outside of the democratic spectrum.
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It then no longer matters whether it is true at all what such persons or institutions actually represent.
But that has nothing to do with a liberal order either.