I often get asked why the AfD is so successful and sure, strategic use of social media and its affective logics are one thing - but German media jumping through literally every single provocative hoop that Höcke&friends come up with is what has empowered the to set the agenda.
Sophie Schmalenberger
It is increasingly frustrating watching how mainstream media outlets endlessly take the bait of the far right across the West. Why is it news that Höcke said this? His speeches are just a litany of provocations that are reported as some kind of grand policy announcement rather than just trolling.
Ned Richardson-Little
The idea that West Germans have lost their culture and become Americans is a far right talking point since the 1950s. What is new in the past fifteen years is the construction of the ex-GDR as an authentic Germany that was preserved from depredations of Westernization under the aspic of communism
