Vance Shuns German Chancellor and Meets with Head of Right-Wing (neo-Nazi) Party
The U.S. is positioning itself to take the lead among world fascists.
The Vice President of the United States flew into Germany for the Munich Security Conference, but instead of meeting with the head of our most important ally in Europe, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, JD Vance met with the leader of what most Europeans consider to be a neo-Nazi party, the Alternative for Germany Party (AfD). With only a week before the election in Germany, Vance’s decision to meet with Alice Weidel, the AFD Party leader, demonstrates to the world that the United States is all in on helping other countries transition to fascism.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance met AfD party leader Alice Weidel during a visit to Munich on Friday, nine days before Germany’s election — but pointedly failed to meet with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
During his visit, he lectured European leaders about the state of democracy and said there is no place for “firewalls.”
Mainstream German parties say they won’t work with the AfD party, because they regard it as far-right, as do most political scientists and most of Europe’s media. Their stance is often referred to as a “firewall.” Polls put Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in second place going into the Feb. 23 election with about 20% support (Vance Shuns Scholz).
If you were listening to Vance, a speech that will hopefully be used one day in the trial against those involved in this coup, you might have noticed that much of what he said seemed to be justifying the role of Elon Musk in euthanizing liberal democracy. Vance kept speaking about the firewalls that Germany uses to protect its democracy from extreme-right political parties. Germany, after all, is the country that didn’t survive the occasion when an extreme-right party led by Adolf Hitler used democracy to end democracy. Germany knows how minorities can use the freedom of a democratic system to end that system.
Germany won’t let that happen again, and if it eventually means outlawing the AfD, then the ruling parties might consider those steps. As was pointed out, though, no one has outlawed the AfD, and they regularly appear on German television to promote their xenophobic, fascist politics. AfD is now Germany’s second most popular political party, but the other parties have all agreed they will not work in a ruling coalition with AfD. This is a right each party has, and so unless the AfD gets 50 percent or more of the seats, it will be in the minority. The firewall will have held.
Vance is telling the world that the United States does not support this firewall, which they view as silencing a substantial minority of Germans. Since Trump came onto the scene, cowardly racists, white supremacists, and other cultists have decided that not being allowed to use the “N” word and berate immigrants in public is somehow against their 1st Amendment rights.
Having purchased the American presidency, Musk is now targeting the ruling majority in Germany by throwing his support behind AfD. Fearing his influence might be limited in pushing the German fascists over the edge to victory, Musk sent Vance to one of the most important security conferences in the free world and ordered him to thoroughly embarrass our nation. Vance proved to the world that the actual president is Elon Musk, and what Musk thinks quickly gets translated into the official voice of the American government — one more concentrated on the insane and vengeful whims of the executive(s) than ever before.
While Musk lets Trump play president by foolishly waging war on paper straws, which, by the way, will exist long into the future because an executive order means nothing for private enterprise (yet), Musk’s agents, like Vance, who appears to understand that appeasing him is more important to his political longevity than keeping Trump happy, are redefining the world in the freakish immigrant from South Africa’s image.
Few people want to call this moment what it is. Some politely refer to it as “regime change,” similar to what happened in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela or Viktor Orban’s Hungary. The regime is being changed, but not by the person elected to represent the country. Donald Trump is receding into a cocoon of dementia, and the fascists around him have, for the moment, let Musk speak for them while they dismantle our nation’s democracy in a coup.
My question, which I asked in complete seriousness, is when does the military wake the eff up and stop this? Some talk about how it is terrible when militaries step into the political fray and arrest fascist, criminal leaders. As a person who served in the military, I can tell you that I swore an oath to protect the Constitution. This is a promise no one currently serving in today’s White House or the Republican Party upholds.
The times demand action.