After AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt win, the author calls the shock “out of proportion.” The party (founded 2013) is now the Bundestag’s largest opposition, strongest in the east, and is being talked about for 2029 nationally. It calls itself conservative, nationalist, Eurosceptic, and anti-immigration; critics call it far-right. Merz’s CDU and the SPD collapsed in the same vote.

The piece rejects a 1932 rerun. Weidel’s line, as cited: Nazi crimes are not denied, but 12 years should not swallow German history. The author’s own test: AfD wants to cut Ukraine aid and reopen Russian energy—conduct he says does not match a Hitler sequel. Congrats came from Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Trump, and Musk; Merz, Lescure, Sikorski, Tusk, and much of the UK press called the result alarming.

The argument: “center” parties that fund the Ukraine war and Israel’s wars are the real militarists; AfD is read as a protest against that establishment. The author still flags that other nationalist well-wishers back NATO, and that Trump may betray his own voters—AfD might too. Protest-vote essay, not a party platform.

The shockwave reaction to the Alternative für Deutschland landslide election victory in Germany is absurdly out of proportion. It also defies any easy categorization of conventional right, left, or centrist politics.

What it does signify is a massive popular protest against the warmongering political establishment in Europe and the United States. The Western establishment has right, left, and liberal adherents, so it is confounding to interpret the AfD election win as reflecting a precise position on the political spectrum.

Western establishment politics and media have labelled AfD as a “far-right party,” a label which the party rejects. It claims to be conservative, nationalist, Eurosceptic, anti-immigration, and seeking more reasoned foreign relations.

The far-right epithet seems to be a more politicized term that the establishment uses to demonize opponents, as it does in France and........

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