“Why are so many Germans so sanctimonious and smug. I don’t get it.”
This applies to their self-loathing liberals.
What’s ironic is that the people in Germany who are the most ardent pro-German nationalists are the Turks who settled in Germany.
When Germany won the World Cup in 2014 it was the Turks who broke out the German flags and proudly celebrated their adopted homeland while the German liberals told them to shut up and stop being proud of Germany.
It is the Turks who have helped the AfD become a viable force in German politics.
They may even influence the upcoming EU Parliament elections and move that body both right and nationalist. Defeating the liberals who want the EU to become a nation unto itself.
Doesn’t surprise me the Turks would consider themselves German nationalists.
Turkey and Germany have a long association with each other.