Opinion
Right-wing extremist suspected case
AfD trial in Münster: Knockout in the first round
The representatives of the AfD at the trial in Münster
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The Office for the Protection of the Constitution is allowed to observe the AfD and its youth organization as suspected right-wing extremist cases. The lawsuit alone was a farce – the appearance in court once again showed the party’s actual helplessness.
If this process had been a boxing match, one could easily have felt sorry for her AfD. The party seemed like a worn-out, old boxer who actually knew in advance that they would lose – and initially did everything they could to avoid getting into the exchange of blows.
Hundreds of applications were submitted and judges were described as biased. The opponent against whom the AfD ran, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was accused of not fighting with fair means. In short: even before the gong had sounded, the party was lashing out wildly. Maybe out of helplessness, maybe out of desperation, maybe both. When the spotlights were actually aimed at the ring, what had to happen happened: The AfD was quickly on the ropes, it only took a few punches for it to be on the ground – knockout in the first round. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution may continue to list the party and its youth organization “Junge Alternative” as suspected right-wing extremist cases in the future.
More farce than negotiation
This negotiation was media-effective. The Münster Higher Administrative Court even had to move it to the foyer of the building at times because the rush of media representatives was so large. And the AfD did everything possible to delay the process – a tactic that you wouldn’t really need if you have nothing to hide, you would think.
But that cannot be said about the AfD. In court it is no longer enough to play the eternal victim keyboard. Or to talk about the “politically exploited Office for the Protection of the Constitution,” which only has in mind to keep the AfD small because the government supposedly tells it to do so.
The classification as a suspected right-wing extremist case does not come from anywhere. Hardly a week goes by without at least one AfD member being misanthropic, homophobic or transphobic. Hardly a week goes by when it doesn’t become clear what this party really wants: an ethnically uniform, old-fashioned, bourgeois, bio-German society. And it also becomes clear how she wants to get there: through racism, exclusion and misanthropy.
One can assume that the AfD itself knows how few arguments it has. The anti-human attacks from their ranks are too regular, the xenophobia is too commonplace, and the historical revisionism is all too obvious.
The AfD can and only wants to destroy
The AfD no longer has much to do with politics. The former Euro-critical Professors’ Party has become a fountain of hatred. Against the Greens, against refugees, against the heating law, against weapons in Ukraine. No matter what it is about, she is against it as long as the “old parties” are for it.
In its current state, the AfD can and wants to destroy above all else. The cohesion in society, the political climate and, last but not least, democracy as we know it. All of these are reasons why the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is allowed, no: even has to, to monitor this party!
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And yet there will be something like a rematch. In a different hall, but the ring will be the same. During the revision process we will see him again: this boxer who gets into the ring again, against his better judgment. Because he sees it as the only way to save face, and because it is of course also about gathering his own clientele. To portray yourself as a victim. And next time it can be assumed that it will be a quick knockout. Until at some point this boxer realizes that he cannot win the fight against the rule of law.