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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

However, the AfD pursues a largely neoliberal economic policy and will therefore not do anything for the socially disadvantaged or for East Germany. But this fact is effectively disguised by the constant slogans "Foreigners are taking jobs away from Germans" and similar nonsense.

In this respect too, the AfD is quite similar to the MAGA people and, strangely enough, both are especially popular with the socially disadvantaged who vote against their own interests.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A lot of the AfD members in the east are also not originally from the east.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, the leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Alice Weidel, doesn't even live in Germany, but in Switzerland.

Do you know where they're coming from? I'm very interested in how this recent wave of populism came to be, and from what I understand eastern (formerly Eastern) Germany has always been more rural and conservative, and it only got worse with the Iron Curtain.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Agreed, but the depth of most people's political analysis is "they scare the people currently in power", and that's enough.