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This is 100% the right approach. I always tell my German comrades the same thing. Chastising workers who vote AfD will not do anything to bring them over to our side. The AfD managed to do what the left could not, which is validate their real material concerns and offer a solution, however false. We have to engage with them on their level and offer them more than liberal moralism.
I usually tell that the AFD will continue the same policies (see Meloni and immigration increasing under her) and that “reducing bureaucracy” is code for gutting welfare systems.
Besides that foreign policy is the partly the cause for mass-immigration, supporting Israhell, bombing the near east, exporting weaponry, economical exploitating Africa and systematically enforcing underdevelopment.
Since my family also votes that way I try to emphasize that they broke immigration law to get my stepmother (who is an immigrant) stay in the country, so literally aided in illegal immigration they hate so much.