Merkel is pro-Europe and pro-bailouts. She is not what we would call conservative over here.
Precisely. Germany doesn’t want those polices. But they’re prepared to vote her out for people that would be even worse. Just like we voted in Obama after a liberal Republican Prez and a RINO-led turned socialist democrat Congress were the ones who messed things up here.
Her coalition partners the FDP (fiscal conservative, moreso than Merkel’s party “classical liberal” ) are the ones who have really lost support. I don’t know what’s up with them. They are pro-EU as well.