[Steve Van Doorn]

Interesting I didn't know about Liberal Conservative Reformers.
Seems like AfD and LKR primary difference is over central banking.

Shades of Milton Friedman vs Ann Rand. Where Ann hated Milton over that one issue.

[pepsionice]

When you go back to 2013, Bernd Lucke carried the whole initial wave of AfD on the back of dumping the Euro. He actually got 810,000 votes (1.9-percent). Most people believe that he basically took the majority of the 810,000 votes from the FDP Party (they did lousy in this election....barely getting one million votes.

If you asked most Germans about the anti-Euro feeling in 2013...this was NOT a top ten problem on their list. It probably didn’t even make the top fifty-list.

Oddly, the crowd that drifted in and attached to the AfD...were the same type crowd that hyped up the immigration issue at the end of 2014, and eventually dumped Bernd Lucke in July of 2015 (he didn’t want the party to become the anti-immigrant party).

Today? Bernd Lucke runs another party...Liberal Conservative Reformers. Same gameplan....anti-Euro.

If you went over to the AfD today and brought up the Euro or anti-Euro chat...the majority has no real opinion. So you just kinda grin over this. A political party built upon one single issue in 2013...firing their originator...then going to another single issue in 2017 of a totally different category.