As calls for an AfD ban grow from a terrified left-liberal government and its NGOs, a top Welt columnist details why such a ban would be pure folly.
While Germany slips into deindustrialization, punishes working-class farmers, and faces a growing budget crisis, calls to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party are growing stronger and stronger as the party soars in the polls.
However, the idea is so dangerous that intellectuals, politicians, and journalists from across the political spectrum are warning against such an action, which would destroy democracy forever in Germany. One commentator, Harald Martenstein, who routinely writes for the Welt newspaper, arguably the most popular newspaper in the country, has just described it as “one of the stupidest ideas ever:”
“Germany’s deindustrialization is underway, and this has nothing to do with global trends. The government considers its citizens to be indefinitely subject to tribute when it comes to restructuring society. And the growing AfD is to be stopped by banning the party — one of the stupidest ideas ever,” Martenstein writes.