Ever since the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) started to gain popularity, it has skated on the edge of being outlawed. As long as none of its members achieved election to office, it could be tolerated. Barely.

Now that an AfD member has been elected to the office of district administrator in Thuringia, all that may change. The highest officials of the Bundesrepublik seem to be scrabbling for a way to hobble the AfD. Any party that is conservative and celebrates traditional German culture is automatically labeled as “Nazi”, without any examination of its political philosophy and policy positions. The AfD is summarily judged guilty of political heresy.

The following report concerns remarks by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Die Welt. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

“The AfD is fueling a climate that is damaging to Germany as a business location”

After the AfD victory in Sonneberg, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser warns of negative consequences for the business location. And Thuringia’s President for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, would leave Germany with his family on the same day the AfD participated in the government. [Good riddance. I guess he’ll have to move to Afghanistan now.]

After the election of the nation’s first AfD district administrator in Thuringia, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser called for a clear demarcation from the party. “There must be no pandering and no adoption of the AfD’s political positions and inhumane and anti-democratic language,” said the SPD politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “The AfD always becomes strong when right-wing topics are whipped up in the middle of society and terms and positions are adopted.”

No democrat should leave any doubt that “the firewall to the right” is in place. “In Thuringia, this firewall has been shaking ever since the brief election of a minister-president with votes from the AfD. This is how borders are shifting in the political spectrum that must not be shifted.” In 2020, the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich was elected Prime Minister of Thuringia with votes from the CDU, AfD and FDP, but resigned shortly afterwards after great public outrage.

Kramer: Would leave Germany if AfD participation in government

Thuringia’s president for the protection of the constitution, Stephan Kramer, says he would leave Germany with his family on the same day if the AfD were to participate in the government. Kramer said that in a conversation with the Israeli Kan broadcaster, parts of which were published in advance on Tuesday and which were slated to be broadcast in the evening. Kramer was General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany for fifteen years.

“The AfD is the parliamentary arm of a much larger conspiracy, a revolutionary conspiracy; they want to conquer the government, the state, and the whole system that has been set up in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Kramer said in the interview, which was conducted in English.

When asked by the Israeli interviewer whether AfD politician Björn Höcke was a “Nazi in a suit,” Kramer said: “He’s a right-wing extremist, but that’s more or less the same description, but a little more polite.” Höcke is head of the AfD-Landesverband Thüringen, who is classified and observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a proven right-wing extremist. The head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, describes Höcke as a “right-wing extremist”. [Well, I guess they’re simply and conveniently going to ignore what the Nazi Hunter Rafi Eitan had to say about the AfD.]

“The mothers and fathers of our constitution have made it very clear that there is a red line,” Kramer said. A democracy cannot tolerate the enemies of democracy. When asked whether the AfD was playing with the red line, he said yes. [So much for the democratic process in Germany; well, the wheel has again turned full circle.]

In the southern Thuringian district of Sonneberg, an AfD candidate was elected district administrator on Sunday for the first time in Germany. This had further fueled the debate about responsibility for the AfD’s current surge. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution rated the Thuringian AfD as “guaranteed right-wing extremist”, nationwide the Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the party as a suspected case. [I take it they only hire people with the right “credentials”, just like the Gestapo and Stasi did. Nothing has changed ideologically, just the “language”, somewhat, for now. The kicked-in doors will come in a few weeks after they have cooked up their “crimes” against the DEMOCKERACY of Germoney.]

Afterword from the translator:

I was sure up until now that Ms. Faeser and her ilk would scare off real specialists, except for those who are practiced “gynecologists”, plastic and other types of “surgeons” and preachers of the “Religion of Peace”… But hey, one learns something NEW every day, such as destroying one’s own educational system for decades, or the economy for a “climate cult” has nothing to do with the fact that nobody with real skills wants to work there any longer.