AfD may have captured 20% of the vote, but they reached their high watermark with every possible advantage—Trump endorsement, Musk amplification, economic anxiety, and the cynical "boon" of violence—and still fell short of expectations.
What's left for Europe's fascists to exploit?
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Why the 2025 Elections May Be AfD's High Watermark
Despite unprecedented backing from Trump and Musk, AfD's political surge falls short of expectations in a divided Germany still resistant to far-right dominance.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
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Jaddy
Als Antwort auf JA Westenberg • •@JA Westenberg Nationwide, this may be true. West-Germany always had a reported sediment of 15% far-right.
But the results show a strong divide along the former west-east border. There're regions in east Germany with over 40% afd voters.
I don't think we can just sit this out until those people realise that the populist far-right has no real solutions and their written program is strongly against the interests of their main voter group.
With >33% seats in these state parliaments they could block changes to the constitutions (including safety measures against extremists) and nominating judges. They could in fact sabotage the administrations and use this as a (pseudo) demonstration, that "the establishment" doesn't function any more.
If, or worse: when they ever get into power in these states, they can also use the Bundesrat to sabotage federal law making.
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