There is a hint of tragicomic that the federal spokesman of the AfD, Jörg Meuthen, announced his retirement from this office on the day on which Angela Merkel, the hateful figure par excellence of the largely right-wing extremist party, was on a farewell visit in Israel.
At the same time, in the form of the SPD and the Greens, two of the three protagonists of Meuthen's “left-red-green-silted-up 68 Germany” are preparing to work with the FDP to define the political course of the coming years.
Nothing could illustrate Meuthen's failure more clearly than that the party did not win any political power option in the federal government in the six years in which he was responsible. On the contrary: The loss of more than a million second votes in the federal election is also due to the fact that the co-chair, who, like many top officials from the West, was unable to give the AfD a halfway national-conservative-bourgeois look. Rather, the officially disbanded "wing" is probably stronger than ever.
Most of the four million citizens who decided in favor of the AfD two weeks ago shouldn't care that this development could call the protection of the constitution fully on the scene.
You did not vote for Meuthen, but for a party because of its partially anti-constitutional program.
That is the problem - and not the future of Meuthen.