Rubio condemns German intelligence’s decision to classify far-right party AfD as extremist
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned a decision Friday from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to classify the political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a “proven right-wing extremist organization,” calling the move “tyranny in disguise” and advising the country to “reverse course.”
“What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes,” Rubio wrote in a post on X in the hours following the decision.
The decision, announced Friday by Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, gives German authorities increased oversight and surveillance over AfD. While some AfD branches at the state level have received the label — such as in Saxony and Thuringia — this is the first time in modern German history that a party with nationwide representation on the federal level has been classified as extremist.
The party won a record 152 parliament seats in the February federal elections and now holds 20.8 percent of the vote.
After conducting a three-year-long investigation into the party, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution released a 1,000 page report, citing violations of core constitutional principles including human dignity and the rule of law.
President Donald Trump and his inner circle have been largely supportive of the AfD. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel was one of many foreign leaders invited to attend Trump’s inauguration and Elon Musk has shown continued support for the party and spoke at an election campaign event for the AfD in January.
“Banning the centrist AfD, Germany’s, most popular party, would be an extreme attack on democracy,” Musk wrote in a post on X .
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Germany is pretty much done with even trying to be a democracy. Even considering banning the most popular party in the country is almost too cartoonishly villainous for a banana republic strongman.
Is the Trump administration cartoonish ? Why did Pam Bondi say confiscating 22 million fentanyl pills saved 254 million American lives ?
Great comparison. Spying on and outlawing the most popular party in the country is the exact same thing as pointing out how many people seized fentanyl can kill. Who could possibly say which is worse for democracy.
And, where does she give him a "public licking" and why can't you stay on topic?
There is one thing a failed French blogger was recently right about: The Europeans are a bit more imbalanced to the left than we are. Only they call the AFD "far right." It is simply a party that is against open borders and in favor of gun ownership. All of Europe seems to fear the recent worldwide rejection of leftist principles. They can try and resist, but it is coming.
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Let's Review what happened:
AFD is the most popular party in the country.
It opposes mass migration, energy shortages and wants autonomy for Germany. All mainstream positions that obviously resonate with the German people.
Rather than opposing the AFD democratically, the German government is abusing its powers, using lawafare and the german intelligence services to spy on the AFD and possibly ban it. No person who believes in democracy can possibly support an authoritarian government using the secret police to spy on its opponents. That's much worse than anything Nixon did.
According to a poll? They still only have 24% of that poll, so not even close to a majority.
Sounds frighteningly like the GOP, as least the GOP in the White House, doesn't it?
Come down off of your soapbox before you get hurt twisting this into some sort of American problem.
You've rebutted a point no one made.
Sounds frighteningly like the GOP, as least the GOP in the White House, doesn't it?
No doubt, banning the Republican party is fully consistent with many progressives view of democracy. The horrors of a country with actual borders, cheap energy that controls its own destiny must keep some progressives up at night in a panic. Similar to their view of free speech as the ability to say anything you want, so long as it supports the positions of the democratic party.
apbox before you get hurt twisting this into some sort of American problem.
Should America ally itself and provide support and protection to a fascist country?
Calling them the most popular party in Germany over and over again is disingenuous, there are seven legitimate parties in Germany.
Said no one ever.
Talk to Harvard, they apparently don't want to kiss the GOP ring.
We have a history of doing that when it is convenient, no?
That sounds eerily similar to the current White House white washing of slavery and other old embarrassments from our museums and renaming Army bases back to their racist original names.
Fascists Defending Fascism. Go Figure...
I agree. People defending a government banning the most popular popular political party in the country are defending fascism. Doesn't get more cut and dried than that.