All other German parties see the alternative of extreme right for Germany (AFD) as a threat to democracy, but the anti-immigration party has a powerful friend abroad: Elon Musk, the voice of the Trump team team.
“Come on, boys, come on: fight for a great future for Germany!” The technology billionaire shouted through a video link in a recent AFD campaign rally.
“It is good to be proud of German culture, German values and not lose that in some kind of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” he told the jubilant crowd in Halle in the former heart of the east communist of the party.
Although the conventional Berlin has reacted with a shudder before the new leadership in Washington, the AFD has encouraged its ideological allies in the fight against migrants, wind farms, gender policy and all things “woke up.”
As the main economy of Europe attends to the surveys of February 23, Musk has intervened in the campaign with cross -fire volleas online.
In addition to supporting the AFD, the man behind Spacex, Tesla and X has also trolled the leftist of the left Center Olaf Scholz with insults such as “Fool” and “OAF Schitz”.
“You must vote for change,” Musk told the Germans in a conversation transmitted with the main electoral candidate of the Alice Weidel party. “And that’s why I really recommend that people vote for AFD.”
On Friday, the American vice president JD Vance supported that position in a speech before a security meeting in Munich, where EU leaders rebuked to ignore the wishes of voters worried about immigration on a wide side later acclaimed by Trump .
For a long time rejected as outsiders in Germany, the issue of mass protests and the surveillance of security services, the AFD has given the attention it produced through the Atlantic while surveying a record of 20 percent.
“It is a good time for the AFD because we are receiving a lot of support from the Trump administration,” said Berlin Chief, architect Kristin Brinker of the party.
“If the richest man in the world and the people of the Trump circle say that AFD is fine, you can work with them, so that is the best thing that could have happened, and I think it will open more doors.”
Greetings to the right
The AFD was invited to the inauguration of Trump, a day in which a jubilant musk gave a right arm greeting that many interpreted as the Nazi greeting forbidden in postwar Germany.
Musk has denied such meaning, but many of his critics were not convinced, including political activists who transmitted the image and the word “Heil” in the Electric Car Plant of Tesla out of Berlin.
When Musk went to the manifestation of the AFD campaign, he told the crowd through a video link that was proud of his “millenary” culture and worries less about his historical fault.
He played well with the party, whose senior figures have requested the end of the culture of repentance after the Second World War of Germany and called the site of the Holocaust of Berlin as a “monument of shame.”
Musk has delighted to make fun of Germany centrist politicians, who have been surprised by the new hostility of the United States, for a long time their most important ally.
Scholz has tried to go back, even in Trump’s declared designs in Greenland, seeking to point out a silently resolved position while avoiding stirring even more a Hornets nest.
Trump, which often crosses Germany for the insufficient expense of NATO and its enormous commercial surplus, has also issued threats, as tariffs that would hammer the economy already ill of Germany.
The favorite conservative choice Friedrich Merz, which has a background of the business world, has promised to speak with Trump, who has characterized “predictably unpredictable.”
‘Crazy, awakened, leftist’
While Berlin’s political establishment is in a flap on Trump 2.0, the AFD cannot believe its luck.
In its X Transmission Chat with Musk, Weidel said the AFD had been “negatively framed” as an extremist group. She insisted that it was really a “libertarian” party.
Like Musk, he spoke Trump’s admirer and said he had caused “physical pain to see how he has been belittled” in Germany.
Both expressed their disdain shared by the German bureaucracy and the “censorship” online and agreed from the heart when Weidel criticized the educational system “crazy, awakened, leftist, socialist” of Germany.
When the conversation went to the Nazi history of Germany, Weidel insisted that Hitler was a “communist.” They also discussed the Middle East and Religion, before their exchanges took an interstellar turn.
Weidel asked Musk about his plans to establish Mars, which led the Chief of Space X to expose extensively to his vision that humans become “a kind of multiple planet.”
Although his conversation was widely ridiculed in the German media, the political scientist Wolfgang Schroeder of the University of Kassel predicted that Musk’s praise for AFD would have “a mobilizing effect” and presented “a kind of ennoblement.”
