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Both of these politcal movements just are clueless as to what their policies bring forth, and what those policies do is push people iinto supporting the far right, because they seem to be the only solution to countering either supporting children taking medications and getting surgery for a "sex change" or allowing a million Muslim refugees safe harbor in Germany where they can plot their next terrorist attacks.
This has been an ongoing problem for Germany before their acceptance recently of a million asylum seekers. The Hamburg cell of terrorists plotted and planned their attack on the WTC on September 11th. The far left stifling those who disagree only compounds this problem.
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday blasted Vice President JD Vance for his support of the far right in the country that gave rise to Adolf Hitler, accusing the American vice president of interfering in domestic affairs less than 10 days before national elections.
Vance’s denunciation of efforts by the German establishment to keep the far right out of power sparked a wave of condemnation from senior officials and pundits, some of whom saw a U.S. administration actively promoting political extremism in the West.
Vance on Friday used a major security conference in Munich to criticize the country’s political fire wall: the post-World War II agreement by mainstream parties to block the far right from being part of any government. Vance punctuated his point by later meeting with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which is polling in second place. The AfD denies being a far-right party but is classified by German intelligence as a suspected extremist group. One of the party’s most polemic figures has been convicted and fined for using a banned Nazi slogan.
Vance’s comments appeared to shatter a taboo. On Saturday, Scholz criticized him for visiting the Dachau concentration camp on Thursday only to meet with and voice support for far-right leaders hours later.
In a keynote address, Scholz noted that the United States helped overthrow Nazism. “‘Never again’ is the historical mission that Germany, as a free democracy, must and wants to continue to live up to day after day,” he said. “Never again fascism, never again racism, never again war of aggression.”
“A commitment to ‘never again’ is therefore incompatible with support for the AfD,” Scholz said, to resounding applause. “That is why we will not accept outsiders intervening in our democracy, in our elections and in the democratic formation of opinion on behalf of this party.”
Vance’s moves offered a sobering illustration of the extent to which the Trump administration is willing to directly align with and boost Europe’s hard-right nationalists who have espoused anti-migrant, anti-LGBTQ+ and pro-Russian views.
For Europe and especially Germany, it was a wake-up call. Traditional politicians in Europe now find themselves caught between an unorthodox, mercurial leader in Washington and a belligerent strongman in Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has worked for decades to undermine liberal democracy in Europe. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has threatened to squeeze European allies through a trade war and raised concerns he’ll sideline them in talks with Putin over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
European leaders also face a growing challenge from nationalist parties at home. In neighboring Austria, the far-right Freedom Party won a plurality in last September’s election. The Freedom Party this past week narrowly failed to cobble together the first far-right-led government in the German-speaking world since the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.
This has been an ongoing problem for Germany before their acceptance recently of a million asylum seekers. The Hamburg cell of terrorists plotted and planned their attack on the WTC on September 11th. The far left stifling those who disagree only compounds this problem.
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday blasted Vice President JD Vance for his support of the far right in the country that gave rise to Adolf Hitler, accusing the American vice president of interfering in domestic affairs less than 10 days before national elections.
Vance’s denunciation of efforts by the German establishment to keep the far right out of power sparked a wave of condemnation from senior officials and pundits, some of whom saw a U.S. administration actively promoting political extremism in the West.
Vance on Friday used a major security conference in Munich to criticize the country’s political fire wall: the post-World War II agreement by mainstream parties to block the far right from being part of any government. Vance punctuated his point by later meeting with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which is polling in second place. The AfD denies being a far-right party but is classified by German intelligence as a suspected extremist group. One of the party’s most polemic figures has been convicted and fined for using a banned Nazi slogan.
Vance’s comments appeared to shatter a taboo. On Saturday, Scholz criticized him for visiting the Dachau concentration camp on Thursday only to meet with and voice support for far-right leaders hours later.
In a keynote address, Scholz noted that the United States helped overthrow Nazism. “‘Never again’ is the historical mission that Germany, as a free democracy, must and wants to continue to live up to day after day,” he said. “Never again fascism, never again racism, never again war of aggression.”
“A commitment to ‘never again’ is therefore incompatible with support for the AfD,” Scholz said, to resounding applause. “That is why we will not accept outsiders intervening in our democracy, in our elections and in the democratic formation of opinion on behalf of this party.”
Vance’s moves offered a sobering illustration of the extent to which the Trump administration is willing to directly align with and boost Europe’s hard-right nationalists who have espoused anti-migrant, anti-LGBTQ+ and pro-Russian views.
For Europe and especially Germany, it was a wake-up call. Traditional politicians in Europe now find themselves caught between an unorthodox, mercurial leader in Washington and a belligerent strongman in Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has worked for decades to undermine liberal democracy in Europe. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has threatened to squeeze European allies through a trade war and raised concerns he’ll sideline them in talks with Putin over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
European leaders also face a growing challenge from nationalist parties at home. In neighboring Austria, the far-right Freedom Party won a plurality in last September’s election. The Freedom Party this past week narrowly failed to cobble together the first far-right-led government in the German-speaking world since the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.
