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Bad Weekend for Germany - Their Version of West Virginia Just Went Full MAGA
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September 8, 2026
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Hawk looks overseas at a state election in Germany that has set off alarms across the country. In Saxony Anhalt, one of Germany's sixteen states, the far right Alternative for Germany party won roughly 44 percent of the vote, about three times its nearest competitor, and now holds 39 of the 83 seats in the state legislature. One German commentator compared it to Donald Trump winning West Virginia.
Hawk lays out what the AfD stands for, a platform he says reads a lot like MAGA: anti immigrant, anti LGBTQ, anti Muslim, running on mass deportation and remigration, opposing abortion, denying climate change, and this time campaigning on a pro Russia, anti Ukraine message. The German government has formally labeled the party an extremist group, which allows increased surveillance of its members. He notes the irony of co leader Alice Weidel, who is gay and whose partner is an immigrant, praising Viktor Orban as a model.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said he will not work with the AfD and called the result a shock that shook his party to its foundation. Hawk connects the wider mood, voters casting a protest against parties they feel ignore them, to the moment back home under Trump, and to fears about what history repeating could mean 81 years after the war.
#Germany #AfD #AliceWeidel #FriedrichMerz #SaxonyAnhalt #FarRight #ViktorOrban #Remigration #Europe #Nationalism #Immigration #Election #Extremism #Russia #Ukraine #Bundestag #Democracy #Fascism #Politics #Hawk
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