I’m not defending the CDU, I’m explaining it. That you cannot spot that difference leads me to believe that talking to you is completely pointless because you have literally zero expertise in analysing politics.

You know what did shift without the circumstances shifting? The Greens’ attitude towards deportations.

No. The Greens never said “if law and courts say someone’s gotta go then they can stay”, and they’re not saying anything different now, either.

public discourse

Is not what’s actually shifting things. You’re looking at surface waves like fucking Lanz talks while missing the underlying currents.