The Christian democrats in Germany were just at the right place and right time at the end of the cold war to be the universal anti-communist party. They’re one of those big tent type liberal (i mean conservative) parties. They’ve managed to remain so popular ever since because they’re the favored party of German manufacturing. Like I remember the CEO of Siemens used to follow around Angela Merkel to international meetings sometimes.
Every person who says this will simply describe capitalism with more welfare