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Can the German People Stop the AfD's Far-Right Rise?
(Der Spiegel) It's a Tuesday evening in the town of Freising, around 30 kilometers north of Munich. A crowd has assembled on Marienplatz square in the Old Town. A police spokesman will later say that there were around 4,000 demonstrators in a town with only 50,000 inhabitants.
A cowbell can be heard ringing again and again. Some farmers from the region have arrived with tractors and protest placards. "Just because we're against government measures that endanger our existence doesn't mean we support the AfD," says one.
Sabrina Walter, 33, a mother of three, is standing in the crowd. One daughter is holding her hand, two children are waiting at home, along with plenty of chores. But not coming was not an option for her. "I want to send a clear message against the rise of right-wing extremism and the AfD," she says as a speaker recalls the horrors of the Nazi era.
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For weeks now, the AfD has been polling at 20 percent or more nationwide. This year, there will be local elections in eight federal states, a European election and state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, and the AfD is currently in first place in the polls in all three states. More German voters can imagine casting their ballot for this party, and fewer categorically rule this out – even though the AfD continues to radicalize. Three state associations have already been classified as confirmed right-wing extremist, and the rest of the AfD is a "suspected case" in the eyes of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's extremism-tracking domestic intelligence agency. .............(more)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/can-the-german-people-stop-the-afds-far-right-rise-a-72fecc92-7da1-4a82-9ae9-f85111675462
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It's not enough that his bots are all over the internet causing trouble in the US elections. Now he's trying to make it look like the Nazis are back in Germany. It's not the Nazis, it just Putin causing trouble.
By the way, Freising is no rural cow-town. It's a major suburb of Munich and it's where the Munich International Airport is located.
