AfD in Summer Interviews: When a Neo-Nazi Past Becomes a Youthful Indiscretion
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On Sunday evening ARD and ZDF outbid each other with "Summer Interviews" by the AfD chairmen. The two might have collected a few more votes. This is also the fault of the "Brandmauer".
Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weiel give summer interviews with ARD and ZDF on the same day. The AfD tip spreads xenophobia and reproaches the political opponents. Why we viewers can endure this.
The AfD could govern in Saxony-Anhalt for the first time. Shortly before the election, the ARD and ZDF summer interviews with Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel reveal an AfD that is reaching for power – and making its radicalism appear as ordinary as possible.
The AfD leaders speak simultaneously on ARD and ZDF: one calls man-made climate change fearmongering, the other claims that everything in Germany is being destroyed.
Interviews are often disappointing and offer little new, but politicians hardly allow themselves to engage in real debates. But what the two AfD tops offered were exciting lessons in terms of unscrupulous demagogy, comments Alexander Jungkunz.
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