MERZ TELLS AMERICA TO STAY OUT OF GERMANY’S ELECTIONS AND TRUMP IS ALREADY LAUGHING
Friedrich Merz has asked the US government not to interfere in Germany’s state elections in September.
He is worried about American meddling. The same America that has been meddling in European politics for decades.
Merz is trailing the far-right AfD in national polls. His conservatives face the prospect of losing Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD in September. He is now appealing to AfD voters directly, telling them to judge his government on its merits.
The irony is beautiful.
Merz said he wants American institutions to stay out. But the AfD has already been banned in some forms. The German establishment has already been interfering with the political process.
America has been interfering in elections worldwide for generations. Everyone knows this. Nobody says it. But Merz just asked them to stop.
Trump does not care about Merz’s request. America does what America wants.
And Merz should know. He has been in politics long enough to understand how the game is played.