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Musk Signals Completion of Bridge Between MAGA and Germany’s Far-Right Party

Beloved by Trumpists, no one cares that the US is aligning with fascist parties worldwide.

B Kean
4 min readJan 22, 2025
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German neo-Nazis, now members of the Alternative for Germany or AFD Party surging in Germany, saluting their cause of hate.

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Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Germany’s far-right AFD party, is so radical that Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right leader, refuses to work with her. However, this hasn’t stopped Elon Musk from putting all of his rotten eggs into Weidel’s little but slowly growing basket.

Elon Musk praised the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader as “very reasonable” on Thursday, urging Germans to vote for the far-right party in what is the latest high-profile sign of the tech billionaire’s involvement in European politics.

“Only AfD can save Germany, end of story, and people really need to get behind AfD, and otherwise things are going to get very, very much worse in Germany,” Musk said during an audio livestream alongside party co-leader Alice Weidel on X. Musk, a close ally of US President-elect Donald…

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B Kean
B Kean

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