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It was AfD chairman Jörg Meuthen who said the following sentence, not a journalist, not a politician from another party: “We will no longer achieve success by appearing more and more aggressive, more and more coarse, more and more uninhibited.” It could “never go on ".
Meuthen did not address the AfD's relationship with commercial neo-Nazis in his speech.
He was concerned with the current AfD's fighting issue, Corona, in which the party has once again become radicalized after migration and climate protection.
Meuthen clearly distanced himself from the so-called “lateral thinkers” and sharply opposed the term “Corona dictatorship”, which Bundestag parliamentary group leader Alexander Gauland hardly uses in clauses.
And who, according to Meuthen, describes the Infection Protection Act as an “empowering law”, as many AfD members do, is operating “an implicit trivialization” of “Nazi barbarism”.
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Meuthen thus demonstrated a willingness to self-criticize, which not a few share: After his speech, around a third of the delegates applauded lively.
But the others either didn't lift a hand or protested loudly.
And both Gauland, who declared the speech to be “divisive” in parts, and the other parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel, who opposed “defaming” the lateral thinkers, clearly kept their distance from Meuthen.
This cannot be recorded under “other opinions”.
In the AfD there are definitely other topics such as social policy, where discussions are normal.
But the topic Meuthen raised is about the basic requirements of democracy.
Only part of the AfD can be committed to this.
Another big part doesn't care.
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