After years of disastrous far-left liberal rule, Germany is finally headed back toward the sane right thanks to Sunday’s elections.
The elections saw the rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a right-wing political party that bears strong similarities to the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement in the United States.
AfD won 44 percent of the vote on Sunday, giving it enough power to lead but not enough for “an absolute majority, meaning it must either find a coalition partner or try to rule from a minority position,” according to CNN.
Despite performing so well, AfD is considered by many in the corrupt establishment to be an “extremist” party:
Just speaking mathematically, if a party gets “at least 44% of the vote”, in a multi-party race where the second place only got 17%, do you still get to call them “far-right”?
Are you actually describing their extremism — or are you really describing yours? https://t.co/Q8sSc0Y49K
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) September 6, 2026
The catch is that the type of people who view AfD as “extreme” are the same who celebrate the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s death and who wish the same fate on billionaire right-winger Elon Musk.
Musk, an American, has been a staunch supporter of AfD.
“I think you really are the best hope for Germany,” he said while speaking virtually at an AfD rally in early 2025.
Listen:
Here’s Elon Musk’s full speech at AfD’s campaign rally yesterday in Germany, with transcription.
“First of all, I wanted to really say that I’m very excited for the AfD, and I think you’re really the best hope for Germany.
I think some things that are just very important are… pic.twitter.com/ZewsX80Xv0
— ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) January 26, 2025
Following AfD’s victory on Sunday, Musk posted a tweet congratulating AfD co-leader Alice Weidel on the victory, writing “well done” in German.
Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s lead candidate in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, responded by thanking Musk for all his support.
“Thank you, @elonmusk , for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time — including here in Germany,” Siegmund wrote.
“If we take responsibility here, I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation. Germany would once again be a place worth investing in,” he added.
Look:
Thank you, @elonmusk, for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time — including here in Germany.
If we take responsibility here, I would very much welcome the opportunity for strong and constructive cooperation.…
— Ulrich Siegmund (@UlrichSiegmund) September 6, 2026
AfD also appears to have the support of the Trump administration.
After Germany’s currently leftist government called AfD an “extremist” group last year, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio both ripped into the establishment regime.
“I think that it is very, very dangerous to use the neutral institutions of state — the military, the police forces … the intel services — to try to delegitimize another competing political party,” Vance said in an interview while in Rome, as reported by NBC News.
“I think that’s especially true when that political party just got second in an election and is, depending on which poll you believe, either the [most] popular or the second-most popular party,” he added.
Rubio similarly used social media to call the German government’s move an act of “tyranny in disguise.”
Look:
Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise.
What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 2, 2025
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton reportedly asked then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to stop sharing intelligence with Germany’s domestic intelligence agency until the nation’s leftist government started treating AfD as a “legitimate opposition party.”
Also, top State Department official Samuel Samson penned a Substack post slamming the German government for having “established elaborate systems to monitor and censor online speech under the guise of combating disinformation and preventing offense.”
He zeroed in especially hard on the German government’s decision to smear AfD as “extremist.”
“Americans are familiar with these tactics,” he wrote. “Indeed, a similar strategy of censorship, demonization, and bureaucratic weaponization was utilized against President Trump and his supporters.”
“What this reveals is that the global liberal project is not enabling the flourishing of democracy,” he added. “Rather, it is trampling democracy, and Western heritage along with it, in the name of a decadent governing class afraid of its own people.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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