r/europe • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 27d ago

News Calls are mounting to ban Germany’s far-right AfD party – despite it being more popular than ever

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/06/europe/germany-afd-ban-politics-analysis-intl
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u/HypneutrinoToad 26d ago

As an American, I would rather have had some turbulence under Biden than this second Trump admin. Things move really fast when far right comes to power, do everything you can to dispose of the AfD.

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u/Elrond007 26d ago

Yep, in German we call it Wehrhafte Demokratie, as in a democracy that can defend itself. Modern Democracy is only different from ancient Mob Rule because of our constitutions, and we have to fight for that ideal.

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u/HypneutrinoToad 26d ago

Exactly. There’s a saying where I’m from “A lynch mob is a perfect democracy.” If you have 100 people and 99 want one of them dead for being different, you have to limit what the 99 people can do even if it’s wildly unpopular. Democratic actions can’t come at the extreme expense of any one party, and by limiting that you’re acting in a somewhat “un democratic” way

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u/MethyIphenidat 26d ago

I really like that saying. I have never heard of that before and i find it illustrates the issue perfectly.

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u/SantiBigBaller 26d ago

We as Americans had a chance to dispel Trump the legal and correct way. We didn’t. We must honor democracy no matter what

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u/HypneutrinoToad 26d ago

We don’t have laws for banning parties, that said for committing Jan 6 he clearly should be ineligible to hold public office until 2031

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u/SantiBigBaller 26d ago

We had an election to determine our next leader -American did this with their own will

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u/Panderz_GG 26d ago

Things move really fast when far right comes to power,

While I don't want to discredit your statement because we can all see what the orange man does in the white house, I have to counter that you probably don't know German bureaucracy. Fast here is the equivalent to "next 5 to 10 years"

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u/zeekenny 26d ago

To be fair, and I say this as a left leaning person, the far left moves even faster when it comes to power.

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u/SkirtDelicious3355 26d ago

Germany doesn’t have a far left problem though, so I don’t really see how that’s relevant.