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With the still rising numbers for the AfD, Germany has plenty of reasons to worry about fascism without bothering to bring in American politics. Not everything is about Trump.

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Why should the Germans be more worried about AfD than the people who have been running the show for the last decades?

After all, they’re not the ones who have implemented disastrous policy one after another.

Because they make it pretty clear that they will be much worse.

padjo was explicitly talking of a leader (Führer).

The trains running on time “joke” is about Il Duce.

But yes, absolutely nothing to do with the US

which is what we got last time a hard-right antidemocratic party took power yes

The last time an antidemocratic (this time not hard-right) party took power in Germany was in the GDR with the SED party.

We got Honecker/Mielke out of that one, I guess.

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