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AfD: Germans float ban on elected far-right party after scandal
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I'm sure that would go over smoothly, and they wouldn't just reconstitute the next day as DfA (Deutschland für Arier)
State repression is absolutely effective when utilized. If Germany gave a shit about opposing fascism (they doesn't) they could crush this party right now and cripple the movement for a decade at least in a single blow.
Sure, but it would also put on display the hypocrisy of the rules based order and Western values to more people.
When they do this to leftist orgs everyone agrees with it, and doesn't care. When they start doing it to the right and people don't agree, that's when things start to break down
But that won't do anything to the size of their voter base, it will only legitimise their ideas even more and will draw in more people dissatisfied with the old established parties who will vote for new or other parties that share those same ideas.
For example the former chief of the Verfassungschutz, Maaßen, is currently in the process of starting up his own right wing party.
So, imo this can only backfire at this point, this should've been done a long time ago.
Unfortunately I don't have any good ideas how to stop Germany going full fash, maybe Sahra Wagenknecht is successful with her culturally "conservative", yet somewhat leftist and anti-imperialist politics in making people vote for her instead of the AfD or whoever takes their place.