By moving rightwards, you do not defuse the political threat from the right. On the contrary, you validate its positions and embolden it to become ever more extreme. This is what Germany has just discovered - again.

And the Tory Party in the U.K.

And as we saw in The Netherlands.

Exactly this 👆

This makes me think of the Canadian situation where the federal government spends billions courting the province of Alberta (Trans Mountain Pipeline for example), but Alberta’s provincial governments just keep entrenching their positions with terrible environmental and social policies.

You are mistaking their essential character for a tactic.

As if last time wasn’t bad enough.

They are just making more people go over to Reform Ltd unless the left can offer something else