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… because media stealthily reinforced that picture? IMO, they let people like Björn Höcke in in order to gain the votes of the far-right voters. They didn't wa
by Arnt 5y ago
… because media stealthily reinforced that picture?
IMO, they let people like Björn Höcke in in order to gain the votes of the far-right voters. They didn't want far-right policies, but they did want votes, and so gradually Björn Höcke and his sort have been able to set the agenda.
There's nothing stealthy about the media covering Höcke, he was elected by party member to represent the party, after all.
Ditto the many others like Höcke. The main representative in the city where I live is someone called Katrin Ebner-Steiner who was voted in by AfD members, not by media, and only covered by general media after her election.
- raxxorrax 5y agoI meant the way their portrait in media was painted, as a party against all others, which made everyone not on good terms with current society stream into the AfD. That necessarily attracted less reputable members. I think at the time Höcke got prominent the radicalization already happened. Of course thy aren't blameless for their fate.