https://youtu.be/xspjsEFFymw?si=HPi6sjocxDODDTiv

“Alles Ist Moglich” -- "Everything is possible".

Sadly, what is now possible is that extreme right politicians will use the language of Hitler and the NSDAP* to wage culture war in Germany.

Hans-Thomas Tillschneider** with his sounding off against the Bauhaus would have been dismissed as a crank twenty years ago. That such people are now coming to power is frightening.

Of course, here in the USA these people are already in power, and showing that their culture war, such as that being waged against the Smithsonian, is all of a piece with the lawless and lethal violence unleashed on the streets of the USA, in the waters of the Caribbean, and from the air over Iran.

Even though I recognize the deep roots of the extreme right in Europe, part of me still hoped that in the continent as a whole and in Germany in particular the memory of earlier horrors would squelch any re-emergence of these movements as serious contenders for power.

Obviously, that hope was misplaced; everything, alas, is possible.

* I write "NSDAP" rather than "Nazi" as I fear that in the English speaking world the latter term is losing its power to horrify .

** Tillschneider was once a member of the FDP. How common is the migration from the FDP to the AfD?

#Politics #Germany #SachsenAnhalt #AfD #Bauhaus #CultureWar #ExtremeRight #HansThomasTillschneider

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