Fresh after a first round of elections, Germany's ruling parties seek to ban their rising AfD conservative rivals

American Thinker ^ | 3 May, 2025 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

Banning conservatives because they are NAZIs (National Socialists just like the current leftist German government?) I swear I am puzzled by their idiocy.

[kiryandil]

Nothing says “Democracy” like banning your political opponents...

[MtnClimber]

So it's obvious the German rulers want to join the tyranny trend in Western Europe, with France banning its leading candidate for office from running for president, and the U.K. jailing internet critics. They seem to want to outdo them all, because neither France nor the U.K. have sought to ban entire political parties, though they may be just upstream of it, heading for the falls, too. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with customary courage, called them out for their anti-democratic activity

[Mark17]

I swear I am puzzled by their idiocy.

Well, they are idiots, so they come up with idiocy.

[ABStrauss]

Perhaps Germany, floundering like the UK, needs another Austrian paper hanger.

[shaggy eel]

What kind of a government tries to shut down its political opponents?

,,, easy - a fascist government.

[dfwgator]

“Germany was having trouble. What a sad, sad story.....”

[srmanuel]

If the UK Reform Party led by Nigel Farage continues to surge in the polls, I would not be surprised if the authorities in the UK don’t invent some way of banning or jailing Nigel Farage and his party from running.

[Williams]

Gee guess they don’t have Constitutions with “negative rights” that would prevent such horrible suppression.

But somebody might think the wrong thing!!

[Right Brother]

Remind me again why we have to protect Western Europe from Russia?

[mass55th]

Sign of a dictatorship.

[Lisbon1940]

I’ll take a pass on that.

[fella]

The Powers That Be in Germany are scared of the AfD just not to the point of rounding them up yet (camps and ovens must be built first) but getting close.

[MtnClimber]

I did not NASI this coming.

[BobL]

“Germany’s ruling parties seek to ban their rising AfD conservative rivals”

My understanding is that AfD is OPPOSED to the Ukraine War, so it makes sense that they need to be banned. Really no different than Trump being shot, or Fico taking 5 bullets. Sometimes ‘protecting democracy’ requires more ‘creative means’ than simply allowing elections, at least according to the Globalists (and perhaps the Zeepers too?).

[NavyShoe]

Our democrats tried to jail Trump for hundreds of years. Same thing, right?

[CTyank]

“For the Defense of Nation and State” and “To Combat Treason against the German Nation and Treasonable Activities”

[dfwgator]

Just call it, “The Enabling Act”.

[MtnClimber]

Our democrats tried to jail Trump for hundreds of years. Same thing, right?

Our marxists ant their marxists are on the same page.