Thats not at all how politics and fascism works. Germany is not isolated from the rest of the world and in some time capsule. It’s definitely not “like the US in 2004” because we’re living in 2025. And it’s not just AFD. Even the greens are fear mongering over immigrants. Germany wasn’t somehow isolated from the rise in islamophbia since 2001. They have been a major part of that and are talking about Muslims like they are Jews in 1930s Germany.
Fascism doesn’t have a 20 year lag. It very often arises in major world powers at the same time. This is due to it being a defensive response of the capitalist class in class conflict. What is happening in the US is also happening in Germany.
The parallels are stark, but the German results are less worrying to me than the American.
Maybe I will be wrong in a month or a year, but so far the Germans are in the “unhappy with the system, try the other major party” stage rather than the “burn it all down and give it to the strongman” stage we find ourselves in here in America.
Thats not at all how politics and fascism works. Germany is not isolated from the rest of the world and in some time capsule. It’s definitely not “like the US in 2004” because we’re living in 2025. And it’s not just AFD. Even the greens are fear mongering over immigrants. Germany wasn’t somehow isolated from the rise in islamophbia since 2001. They have been a major part of that and are talking about Muslims like they are Jews in 1930s Germany.
Fascism doesn’t have a 20 year lag. It very often arises in major world powers at the same time. This is due to it being a defensive response of the capitalist class in class conflict. What is happening in the US is also happening in Germany.
The parallels are stark, but the German results are less worrying to me than the American.
Maybe I will be wrong in a month or a year, but so far the Germans are in the “unhappy with the system, try the other major party” stage rather than the “burn it all down and give it to the strongman” stage we find ourselves in here in America.