An anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month.
An anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month.
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It’s 2016-2020 all over again, it would seem. Those were the years when the German mainstream media did not go one day without publishing at least one headline telling us how dumb, dangerous, and insane Donald Trump was. (more…)
It is amusing in a depressing sort of way to watch the current about-turn of the German political Right regarding Sahra Wagenknecht. Wagenknecht was a well-known politician of Die Linke, the Leftist uniparty — kind of post-reunification Germany’s version of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). But in recent years she made herself rather unpopular with her comrades, to the point of being threatened with being kicked out of her own party. In 2021 Wagenknecht published a book titled Die Selbstgerechten (The Self-Righteous Ones), her criticism of the modern Left’s betrayal of its former ideals. (more…)