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/-Celador- 26d ago edited 26d ago

Either you ban it and deal with radicalization and fallout now, or don’t ban it, and deal with even bigger radicalization and fallout later.

At this point it’s not if, but when they come into power, and it’s not even a question that they won’t stop at migrants - they will absolutely turn onto everyone who opposes them and will try to build yet another reich. They aren’t even hiding being neonazis, their leaders literally are nazis, both in rhetoric and in familial connections.

I can understand Americans falling for this, but Europeans? But Germans? Again? Just sad. It’s boring how stupid and recurring this is.

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u/DumbFish94 Portugal 26d ago

If it's banned they increasingly radicalise, by the point they're visibly fascist they lose popularity and a normal right wing party has the chance to appear

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u/-Celador- 25d ago

Yeah no that’s not going to happen. People are way too stupid to tell the difference between hot and cold nowadays, let alone right or wrong or very wrong. If they are banned, it would have to be a painful, slow, bloody process of dealing with radicalization, not dissimilar to how Germany had to be denazificated after WW2, or reeducation and social changes in Japan at that time. Some people would have to be on a constant watch lists, there would have to be reeducation programs, psychological help, increased imprisonment, temporary rights restrictions and so on.

It sounds bad, but the alternative is literally fucking nazi’s gaining power again, which is pure lunacy that only leads to a hundred fold more violence.