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Now they need to wheel and deal in parliament to make things happen

What's the sort of thing that they could (theoretically) make happen on the state level, by the way?

There's a handful of things that are actually still up to the states in this heavily centralized pseudo-federation:

  • Education: Replace leftist propaganda with rightist.
  • Policing: Attempt to more strictly enforce laws against immigrants and leftists.
  • Culture: Defund leftist projects. Possibly try to build pro-German ones.
  • Local Affairs: Block lefist initiatives, and maybe help along prosocial ones where they can.

And there's a good bit of culture warring to be done in all of those. But as with everything in Germany, it's all secured by lightyears of red tape, so what little they can do there will take disproportionate amounts of effort and time, and always against the resistance of the establishment in each of those areas, and is likely to be swiftly undone by the next government that actually has the deep state on its side.

As for the big issue, immigration, they can't really do much. Maybe redirect some immigrants to other states, maybe inconvenience immigrants here and there, but ultimately the incentive structures are created at the federal level and the enforcement failures are at the EU level. Sachsen-Anhalt, being a Binnenstaat, isn't even at the German borders.

Question because I legitimately don't know- is the AFD likely to have access to the human capital to start doing any of this stuff? That's been a problem for controversial right wing governments in very established, procedurally suffocating countries. Germany's cordon sanitaire has seemed unusually effective until now.

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