[Skybird]

Yes, originally the AfD was founded by a professor for economics as an anti-Euro party, in protest to Merkel's blind and uncritiala EU policies. But Lucke was too naive to fight down the Nazis that also went into his party and formed a strong wing in it, and he then was more or less mobbed out. Over the years the "völkischer Flügel", the Neonazis, build their power and now are practically impossible to get rid off again, they are also propably the sarongest though maybe not the majority wing in the party. The AfD is not Nazi in totality, but has a very strong Nazi group. Not all supporters of it are Nazi, probably not even the majority, but the support by Nazis is prominent. And most of their voters possibly are not Nazi either, but a prominent share of voters is - or doe snot care, are driven by motives into the AfD thatmake them not caring for Nazis.



Like Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht (a strict Stalinst in capitalist disguise) the AfD are very pro-Russia and pro-Putin. Both accuse Zelenskyi and Ukriane to not allow the war to be settled peacefully. Putin's respinsibility they do not loose a word over.



The AfD was thrown out of the EU parliament group that unifies the irght wingers form franc,e Italy, Austria, Hungary. For them the AfD was too extremist in its positions, at least in the frank communication of these.



An out standign feature I see in the AfD is the lack of intellectually refined experts for anything. Their party leadership may be unscrupolous and eager to ground for ever more power for themselves, but they are, in my opinion, dumb like straw. The fact that they know how to act and ensnare their audience in order to win them over to their side is something they have in common with Trump, but no one will want to attribute an excess of general educational expertise and cultural education to Trump - and such descriptions would also be tantamount to a joke for the AfD's top staff. Much of their rhetorical aggressiveness in discussions and interviews derives directly from their poor educational background and lack of factual knowledge. It is an expression of intellectual clumsiness and helplessness, and narrow-minded ideological stolidity.


So, they are not completely and only Nazi but they have a strong Nazi influence/group amongst in their rows. Possible that this group sooner or later indeed will take over the party completely. They are notoriously engaged in internal fights for power.



In three of the five Eastenr federla states there will be elecitosn this year. Its possible that AfD wins all three of them.



The policy results ofn the traffic.-light coalition in the past ~3 years injected a steroid booster into the AfD's support basis. Red SPD and green Greens as well as their Merkelian copy, the former CDU , have notjhign but themseloves to point fingers at for the rise of the AfD. Its a Frankenstein creature that was called into life by Merkel and nursed and fostered by the Scholz govenrment of Red-Green.



Interesting is that they had lowered the age for voting to 16, SPD and Greens expected that the young wpould vote predominantly for them. The oppposiute was true: Most young ones ovted for the AfD and the CDU, (17% each), SPD and Greens got less than 9%, the other parties even much less. The young ones are not all going Nazi, you know. They just are not as dumb maybe as politicians think they are - they fear what Red-Green has done to their future chances. And they have all reason to.


Hilarious is how SPD and Greens react to the spanking they got. Scholz says they must now carry on and that he has no intention to call early elections. Interior minister Faeser (SPD) and their general secretary Kühnert offend voters not voting for them of being intellectually inapt to vote correctly and to apprecioaste the greta polciy they have attaqcked Geremay with in the oast three years. The greens give al, others tzhe guilt for their 40% loss. Its Putin, the war, the lockdown, the pandemic , the inflation, the not left-enough schools, the Nazis, hell knows what else - but its nto themsleves, tzheir polticy making if flawless and thery still imply they know all and evertyhign better, and people are unfair and not thankful enough.


What they all strictly avoid to conclude is that it is right their political work and their ideological goals and their tyranny of their loud minorities that forces the majority to submit to their minority-interest laws that has turned people against them and made them turn for the AfD - in despair, so to speak, in a last move of self-defence. Status in practically every political field over here has become much worse in recent years, and Red-Green, and also before: Merkel, are responsible for it.



Reality denial. I have no coubt that they will continue to do their best to boost the AfD. It will neither delcine back into meaninglessness, nor go anywhere else. It stays - and is becioming the new ordinary worker's party. The The SPD has actually abolished itself. And the CDU is just a cheap imitation that opportunistically copies red and green - it no longer stands for real value conservatism, but Merkelianism, which is opportunism and the strict ignorrance for any binding values that could get in the way in the grab for powers. Also, it needs to form coalitions with Red and Green, and so even if it wins, Germany is doomed to always get red-green policies.