The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party -- a Right-leaning populist party -- has been gaining ground in polls. Germans, unhappy with the direction their country is taking (including violence from unfettered immigration), are looking for leaders who will hear their concerns and do something about them.
Now, German intelligence has labeled AfD as 'extremist.'
Because reasons.
Watch:
BREAKING: AfD has been designated an extremist entity by German intelligence. https://t.co/TC2ROCL7wW
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 2, 2025
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/r7RSbM2yz3
Just incredible.
And, of course, opposing parties are calling for a ban on AfD:
Germany says it’s a liberal democracy, but it’s not. The government censors its critics, spies on its political opponents, and now appears close to banning the nation’s most popular political party, the AfD. A “ban has to come," says the governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) 🚨 pic.twitter.com/JT5LOtBluu
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) May 2, 2025
Democracy, or something.
Really shows the state of freedom in the West when a centrist but still basically liberal party isn’t even allowed to participate in democratic processes because letting the Germans vote for their preferred candidate threatens the Regime.
— C.Jay Engel 🌲 (@contramordor) May 2, 2025
The powers-that-be don't like it when their control is threatened.
A bit too late to do that isn’t it? I expect AfD to gain more seats in coming elections.
— HeritageHerald (@RealHeritageH) May 2, 2025
I just hope that if AfD gets power, they don’t forget the amount of government power used against them, and fight back. Germany needs strong leaders.
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The more they try to suppress the AfD, the more it'll grow.
"Democracy is banning the most popular political party".
— DTDavis (@DTDavisPhD) May 2, 2025
Sounds familiar, no?
So the majority of Germans are now extremist in their own country?
— JB (@ShakenNotPosted) May 2, 2025
It's the same mentality the Left employs here in America.
"Exremist entity" and its a right liberal party headed by a lesbian dating an Indian lol https://t.co/CNHjyAdJVa
— Venom Rach ☧ (@SocialNomadRach) May 2, 2025
You can't make this up.
Democracy is when you ban the party that’s leading in the polls https://t.co/XwTQ0WKms6
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) May 2, 2025
Make it make sense.
When some say “it is functionally illegal to hold Right Wing views in Post-War Europe” this is what they’re referring to. https://t.co/1EvTLuml4c
— Benjamin🏡Boyce (@BenjaminABoyce) May 2, 2025
Hard to argue it's not functionally illegal.
I'm sure this wont backfire... https://t.co/EWzX6Mh5DZ
— MacroViews (@from_10000ft) May 2, 2025
Nope, not at all. History is devoid of examples of stuff like this backfiring.
Not.
Broke: “let’s look at why the political right is gaining ground and see if we can address the issues concerning them”
— Zezima (@WalterMitty1690) May 2, 2025
Woke: “We will designate anyone that disagrees with us as right-wing extremists”
Bespoke: “F**k it. Create Hitler” https://t.co/KeKXNDtUW8
That's exactly how this plays out.
You'd think German would be aware of its own history.
German "intelligence" has no understanding of the history of German politics in the 1920's. https://t.co/ytN5feB9Cq
— Matt Loesby (@LoesbyForIdaho) May 2, 2025
Clearly.
German government is ready to destroy democracy in order to “defend democracy.” @AfD, now, Germany’s no. 1 party is being labeled as an extremist org, from which the next logical step will be banning it from elections. https://t.co/diYMEpGScl pic.twitter.com/ATcsDdSTRX
— Alexander Lacherbauer (@lacherbauer) May 2, 2025
The ban will happen. Bank on that.
Let’s check in on liberal democracy https://t.co/A0SD3U1oCb
— James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) May 2, 2025
This are not going well.
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