I really don’t understand Weber. We have so many examples now of centrist conservatives making the mistake of working with the far right, which then leads to votes going to the far right and leaving the centrist party in shambles at the next election. Cameron with Brexit, in Belgium the Christian democrats helped the Flemish nationalists to power about 30 years ago maybe, and haven’t recovered since, just the last election in the Netherlands where the VVD was reduced to rubble after endorsing the PVV.
The EPP is at the moment the biggest political group, but they seriously risk losing everything to the far right and that will seriously hurt not just them, but the European project as a whole. Doesn’t Weber look at what’s happened in such situations before? Why try the same and expect a different outcome?
I really don’t understand Weber. We have so many examples now of centrist conservatives making the mistake of working with the far right, which then leads to votes going to the far right and leaving the centrist party in shambles at the next election. Cameron with Brexit, in Belgium the Christian democrats helped the Flemish nationalists to power about 30 years ago maybe, and haven’t recovered since, just the last election in the Netherlands where the VVD was reduced to rubble after endorsing the PVV.
The EPP is at the moment the biggest political group, but they seriously risk losing everything to the far right and that will seriously hurt not just them, but the European project as a whole. Doesn’t Weber look at what’s happened in such situations before? Why try the same and expect a different outcome?