How ‘Far Right’ Is Germany’s AfD Party?

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1. From Bloomberg Opinion’s Katja Hoyer:

   When Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a regional election last year, global [headlines](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-elections-far-right-rcna169139) proclaimed the first far-right victory in Germany “since the Nazis.” Now Elon Musk has [endorsed](https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/plus254982012/Warum-Elon-Musk-auf-die-AfD-setzt-und-warum-er-dabei-irrt.html) the AfD, arguing its depiction “as far right is absolutely wrong.”

   With the anti-immigration party set to make huge gains at the upcoming federal election, the question has never been more pertinent: How right-wing is the AfD?

2. Weidel is more like Trump. But Höcke is really another breed. To quote him:”The big problem is that Hitler is portrayed as absolute evil.”

   Sentences like that were unsayable for German politicians a couple of years ago. But if Höcke leads the AfD future can become very grimm, very fast.

3. The party is rife with Nazis and other flavors of fascist from the top down. Even if their official platform isn’t that extreme, it’s only a matter of time before they shift politics right into hell

4. Let the sanewashing begin.

5. They’re minimalizing Nazi atrocities so I would say they’re pretty far-right enough for many decent people.

6. Höcke is the person that is making the ideas and ideological platforms for the AfD while Weidel and others maintain the sometimes confusing, plausible deniable image of the AfD being all business. It’s essentially a German MAGA and allied with MAGA, not the Republicans while the Union thinks they’re allied with the Republicans that no longer exist since the MAGA takeover.

   Now the Union is freaking out about Musk’s involvement and they, particularly the CSU, are dialing back their overlap with the AfD because now they know they primed people to move to the furthest-right reaches of the party, but those people are just moving to the AfD. Joachim Herrmann even did a speech where he apparently walked back his own far-right rhetoric to now overlap with the left regarding immigration and multi-cultural societies.

7. Last year they had a secret meeting that came to light with members from the fahr right from Austria and discussed „remigration“. This plan includes forcefully removing millions of people: all asylum seekers, people who are not having German citizenship AND German citizens who are not assimilated to the far right ideology. After it came to light the afd scrambled to downplay all of this to keep their sane public image.

   Case closed for me.

8. Only the first 2 paragraphs load for me on that piece’o’shit website. Anyone got the full article?

9. Nazis aren’t far right and im tired of people claiming otherwise.

   If you consider political compass they are at authoritarian center at best.

   If you consider a line which started from the french revolution then nazis like all other radicals are on the left and conservatives on the right (and yes nazis hated conservatives for capitalism and inaction).

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