Großkoppf, Benjamin / Schwarz, Bianca, Wie die AfD-Strategie funktioniert. In: tagesschau.de 25.07.2025 06:11 URL https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-strategie-104.html

So the first step of AfD culture war tactics: Frame conflicts as a culture war. So clear enemies are defined (the left), playing on the solidarity of liberal parties with the left. This creates distance with the CDU which results in a bigger division between left wing and conservatives.

Metapolitics seems to be a useful term.

At the time (2019) -- at least for me -- the tactic of conservatives was more about shifting the overton window, because they where well aware of the prevalence of migrant identities in Germany (which sometimes lead to a lot of backlash against their xenophobia). But this is just a personal opinion/observation.

for - New media landscape - dark forest - media communities - right wing media blames it on loss of the sacred - front YouTube - situational assessment - Luigi Mangione - The Stoa - Deep Humanity - also sees loss of a living principle of the sacred as a major factor in the polycrisis - but is neither right, left or religious

comment - This comment is itself also perspectival as is any. - Deep Humanity does not consider itself right, left out even religious but also see's an absence of a living principle of the sacred as playing a major role in our current polycrisis

See the ontological politics there:

to insist that our liberal-left present reality and future direction is incompatible with human nature and must undermine society

What is the assumed "human nature" that liberal left approaches are incompatible with? That is a fascinating question and key to much of this discussion.

It is perfect evidence of the central but hidden role of "ontology"[^1] to politics.

[^1]: i.e. beliefs about human nature.

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