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hobby10113

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4. Why can't the Rethuglicans be more like her party the CDU.

Reply to Busikorn (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 24, 2021, 11:14 AM

Nov 2021

For a conservative she was smart with the pandemic. She actuality cared about people for the most part. The only thing that bugged me about her was the way she and the EU treated Greece with the austerity policies during the aftermath of the great recession.

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