Germany held its election today.
The left-wing Social Democrats plummetted; the far-left Left Party gained by too meager an amount to make up for the rejection of the center-left. Meanwhile, the Green Party (more a centrist option in Germany than anywhere else on the planet) ticked up slightly.
This may surprise some, but the “winner” – the center-right Christian Democrats (a.k.a. the Social Christian Union in Bavaria) actually slipped a little in support.
The big winner, the folks who scored enough to oust and replace the SDP as the coalition partner for the CDU/SCU was the small-l libertarian Free Democratic Party, who scored their highest vote percentage in history – and did it with a platform of major tax cuts (Bloomberg).
Something for American politicians to note . . .
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