Germany ‘has rebuilt the Berlin Wall’ – Vance – CLG News
- On May 2, 2025, US Vice President J.D. Vance criticized Germany’s domestic agency for labeling the AfD as an extremist party, comparing it to rebuilding the Berlin Wall.
- The German agency BfV classified AfD as extremist after a three-year investigation citing xenophobic statements and constitutional violations.
- The AfD, founded in 2013 as eurozone crisis backlash, has shifted to opposing immigration and NATO and holds significant voter support, winning 152 Bundestag seats.
- Vance stated on X, "Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it," referring to efforts to suppress the currently strongest party in polls at 26%.
- The classification enables police monitoring, while German leaders plan to block AfD’s growth amid controversy and refusal of coalitions, raising concerns about democracy.
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JD Vance Lectures Germany on 'Democracy'
Oh this is rich. Vice President JD Vance, who boasted that he would not have certified the fair and democratic presidential 2020 election if he had been in Mike Pence’s position, is now teaching the Germans about the fundamentals of Democracy. The AfD...
Germany Goes Full Gestapo as Vance and Rubio Slam "Tyranny in Disguise" - Beatrix von Storch Warns of "Dangerous Precedent for Democracies"
The AfD is the most popular party in Germany, and by far the most representative of East Germany. Now the bureaucrats try to destroy it. The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt—not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment.
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