Let’s move away from the noise of what happened to Ukrainian President Voludimir Zellinski at the White House Oval Office, to regain and analyze an incident that preceded it, which was also the hero JD Vans, US Vice President.
In Munich, on the Great Hall platform at the Baysheh Hof Hotel, US Vice President Trump stopped, and delivered a lengthy and transcendent speech.
He spoke to the Europeans as a teacher and their democracy, which “completes mouths and faces the possibility of their collapse from within.” Voters in your countries did not go to the polls. America will completely do this, according to the man’s words.
In order to inform them, in a way that calls for doubt, America’s policy towards Europe is going in a direction that it did not familiarize with, as it used an expression of American culture:
“There is a new honest in the city.”
The expression is due to the nineteenth century, and it is intended to say that the town- often notorious- is based on a fundamental change in politics, and there is an imminent cruelty it deserved.
Most Americans remember the expression of the classic Blazing Saddles, or burning saddles, from the seventies. The authorities send a new black color- that is, in violation of the rules and expectations- to a notorious town. In a comic context, Al -Sharif will return to power, and the sinners will be disciplined from every class and type.
The Europeans breathed a little air when the German Defense Minister followed him on the same platform, and he clearly said that the speech of US Vice President was “unacceptable.”
The next day, Chancellor Olaf Schultz climbed, and said: “We will not accept that strangers interfere in our democracy, in our elections, or in the formation of a democratic opinion in favor of that party. The German political affairs are determined by the Germans, not others.”
Cholts referred, as usual, every German politician, to the lesson that the country learned from its own history, and to the fascist doctrine that is still the “party” (the alternative for Germany), carried by his political genes.
Germany has received a special share of the US Vice President’s speech, which lasted for more than half an hour. His mockery of the “Firewall Fire Wall” looked disturbing to the German center parties trying to isolate the “party”, through a firewall that criminalizes its convergence. On the sidelines of the conference, Vans went to meet Alice Fidel, the leader of the Alternative Party for the right -wing Germany, and avoided German advisor.
The “American Sharif” was not too late, as he announced from Washington his absolute recommendation to what was stated in his deputy’s speech in Munich.
The cultural level in Germany, on various local media, saw as a rift is no longer repaired. Half an hour of listening to the Summary of the Press on the Radio of Germany, seven in the morning, is sufficient to see the western rift, and even to predict its fate.
German democracy is fighting a difficult fight with the right -wing radicalism, as the alternative party in all opinion polls comes second. According to a study by Bio Center, 2024, 26% of Germany’s “men” are satisfied with the party.
Al -Wasat parties are trying to get the monster out of the game, and Fredrich Mertz, the expected German advisor, was trying to promise his voters to push the alternative party to the margin of political life, to “where it should be”, according to his words.
The moment of rapprochement- perhaps unintended, which recently occurred between the Christian Democratic Party and the extremist alternative party, while voting on the “Mertz” project related to asylum- sparked a wave of dust in all German space.
Even the church, which distanced itself from the political conflict, joined the debate, and protested with firm words of what happened. Finberg, the German-German and survivor of the Holocaust- returned to the German presidency the Medal of Honor, which he granted him in appreciation of his efforts in education. On many platforms, a 99 -year -old man said that the approach of the center of the center, the Christian Democratic, from the alternative party, returned it to the early days of 1933.
The German state did not provide anything in the confrontation with the extremist right. In a number of German states, the entire party placed, under the supervision of the Constitution Protection Agency (State Security), and the party’s “Youth of Alternative” wing was classified as an extremist entity.
In June of last year, the Ministry of Interior banned the Compact magazine known for its extremist speech. An unfamiliar precedent in the relatively modern German democracy, stood before it the Federal Administrative Court, August 2024, confused.
The court commented on the decision of the Ministry of the Interior and stated in its statement, “There is evidence that the content of the magazine violates the dignity of man, but preserving freedom of the press has priority,” as Reuters quoted at the time.
This atmosphere of conflict is in the eyes of Vans and the stars of the Magha (make America a great again) a violation of freedom of expression, rejected by the American taxpayer.
The American is a democratic citizen who does not accept that his soldiers go to protect a regime that violates freedoms and undermines common values, as Fanns alluded after his return from Munich. Vans himself, as many American writers, mocked, refusing to recognize the results of the 2020 elections, and he does not see the storming of Trump’s supporters of the Capitol building in Washington, 2021, a threat to democracy.
The sudden love between the Radical Alternative Party and the Trump administration is not disturbed by the party’s program calling for the expulsion of American forces from German territory and making the country free of peace -threatening US nuclear weapons, says the party’s 2024 program.
The Alternative Party has affirmed this demand since 2016, and the idea of Germany’s removal from American hegemony is at the heart of its national speech.
It also does not affect Trump’s promises to impose customs tariffs on European exports that may deeply harm the European economy. A form of extremist love that is difficult to imagine outside the atmosphere of doubt, hatred, and lack of confidence in the democratic system.
The alternative party does not represent a homogeneous entity in the philosophical and cultural sense. It is closer to a crowd of angry people, most of whom live in the east of the country. In total, 54% of German voters do not trust the political parties, and a poll of the German Forsa Foundation last year revealed. This percentage is condemned by the results of the poll conducted by the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, which included voters from France, Germany, Italy and Poland, where the results said that 60% of the participants do not trust political institutions. The same percentage, sixty percent, saw in democracy a low efficiency system.
There are many data that the radical right depends, mainly, on a “ideology of fear” that does not concern the facts, but rather with feelings and general mood.
Respowment provides alternative facts, that is, delusions. Because political liberalism distributes promises, and economic liberalism distributes inequality, a broad space arises between politics and economics.
Within that space, populism invests in the ideology of fear, and in the production of alternative facts. A study conducted on a sample of 1,000 German men between the ages of 16 and 25 years revealed that the levels of anxiety were higher among people who put themselves in the extreme right category, unlike those who said they belonged to the democratic community.
Europe is sliding into an internal cultural war, and one of the results of that war is that the center parties have become more radical in the hope of bringing the consent of the voters, and avoiding the exit from the hairdresser.
In the midst of the existential conflict, as the men of the political community sees it, the extremist alternative party succeeded in jumping on the wall of fire. And if the political fire wall is still standing, albeit less solid before, then the presence of the party in public life has become a natural event that appeals to one in four Germans.
How can a democratic institution criminalize a party representing a quarter of the population? The middle parties stand in front of this new fact and are not very accessible to doing it. There are dangerous signs coming from the past.
On December 13, 1930, the Tourning State Parliament elections gave the Nazi Party (NSDAP) the opportunity to participate in a regional government for the first time in its history. Last summer elections in the same state gave the Radical alternative party the highest percentage of votes.
On the guidance of the red tram, right -wing extremist leaders in Madrid met a few days ago, and held their conference under a banner “to make Europe again Mega.” Once again, the European right is repeated: there is a cultural threat to Europe, and the continent must fall intolerance to preserve its cultural identity. But it also has to establish barriers between its countries, and to manage each state of security its borders. That is, Europe becomes great, pure and divided at the same time.
The German oath is inspired by the tramic tale and he sees everything possible. At an electoral festival in the state of Saksen, a short time ago, the “Alternative for Germany” party hosted Elon Musk on a large screen. Musk spoke to his host saying that they are the only hope of Germany, as he does through his account on the X platform. The euphoria of the moment took him to the “German” call to overcome the “Second World War knot”. I understood his advice- which won unparalleled applause- as it was directly targeting the Holocaust, depriving the holy German policy. The Maga clique gives the European right parties a certificate of good biography and behavior, and this is the real threat that the center parties see, not Vans.
At the lower levels within the alternative party fans, there is “right extremism, manipulation of history and lack of confidence in the democratic system,” as journalist Jesska Birka noted a field report in favor of “BBC” on the party’s youth. Denial of the Holocaust, praise of Hitler, and the hatred of “those who are above” is the daily material that the party’s youth addresses.
According to an examination conducted by the German newspaper De Zeit, more than 80% of the members of the Radical Party do not have a general secondary certificate. There is a wide sense of dissatisfaction, fear, and insecurity, and as a result, a sector who has lost their confidence in the democratic institution and the efficiency of the liberal state to the group that succeeds in investing their dissatisfaction.
German politicians claim that their country represents the last “green meadow” of democracy in the world, and that their democratic institutions are protected by the lesson they learned from history.
It is a belief in which Trump, Mask, FAF, and the rest of the Maga group will not share, not even the non -liberal forces that sweep the lost continent. It appears that the “Maga Crazing” is trying to impose a new system on all of Europe aimed at dismantling it from the inside, as a unified power, through the “Difference” policy, as Steve Walt, a professor of international studies at Harvard University, goes in an article on the Forene Policy magazine.
The tramic experience is likely to open the door to an extended American era of extremism, isolationism and political “masculinity”. The Europeans realize the reality of this possibility and its seriousness, and that they should not think about what they will do in order to gain Trump’s satisfaction, but rather with what they should do to manage the affairs of their continent.
Dangerous challenges, their danger is real at all levels. It is interesting that the European peoples, in front of Trump’s shock, turned their papers and found no trick other than the Middle East trick, which has always been ridiculous: boycotting American goods. A poll said in the past few days that 60 % of the Germans refuse to buy Tesla cars, which is made by Elon Musk, and that 60 % of the British said they would buy Chinese electric cars. Sore than Europeans, Canadians said they will not buy the American goods.
Things are collapsed in the Western world, which has never stopped claiming that its model in politics and culture represents the end of human perfection.
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