Analysis

Cordon sanitaire against AfD begins to crack – a miracle in the making

January 25, 2025 0

. ER Editor: A definitional reminder.  In politics, cordon sanitaire (French: [kɔʁdɔ̃sanitɛːʁ]; lit. ‘sanitary cordon‘) is the refusal of one or more political parties to cooperate with certain other political parties. Often this is because the targeted party has strategies or an ideology perceived as […]

GOVERNMENT

Schwachkopf, or Idiot

November 20, 2024 0

. ER: ‘Schwachkopf’ means ‘idiot’ in English. We smell a bigger strategy behind this. One resulting in humiliation of a high-profile politician, in this case Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, whose censorship efforts have spectacularly backfired. A […]

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