You can‘t simply throw out people in parties in Germany. There are examples where parties tried to get rid of politicians that did not fit the partie‘s views without success.
They didn‘t try despite the awful stuff she propagated and that‘s what they should be measured by. „But it probably would have failed“ is such a lazy excuse to not even try something so necessary.
I never said they should not have tried but according to your statement kicking out party members is a easy thing to do. In the case of the German left party, at the time the Sahra Wagenknecht was still a member of the party, it was even less simple as a significant portion (and that does not have to be the majority) of the members of the party supported her. In the end this is how parties work. They are not an entity with a streamlined set of values but rather consist of groups of people with „similar“ views. At some point those groups diverge to much and form new parties. So in this case there is no well-defined „they“ when you refer to the party its internal conflicts.
You can‘t simply throw out people in parties in Germany. There are examples where parties tried to get rid of politicians that did not fit the partie‘s views without success.
They didn‘t try despite the awful stuff she propagated and that‘s what they should be measured by. „But it probably would have failed“ is such a lazy excuse to not even try something so necessary.
I never said they should not have tried but according to your statement kicking out party members is a easy thing to do. In the case of the German left party, at the time the Sahra Wagenknecht was still a member of the party, it was even less simple as a significant portion (and that does not have to be the majority) of the members of the party supported her. In the end this is how parties work. They are not an entity with a streamlined set of values but rather consist of groups of people with „similar“ views. At some point those groups diverge to much and form new parties. So in this case there is no well-defined „they“ when you refer to the party its internal conflicts.