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He is not "conservative of the year". He gave a speech to the far right AfD Party in Germany and called them Germanies only hope. To give you an idea: at the E
by Certhas 2y ago
He is not "conservative of the year". He gave a speech to the far right AfD Party in Germany and called them Germanies only hope.
To give you an idea: at the European level, the group of LePen and Meloni refuses to work with them because they are to extreme. Many regional branches of AfD are under surveillance for strong suspicion of fascist activities. One of their most prominent politicians sued someone for defamation for calling him fascist. The court decided that this was not defamatory because it was in fact true.
Our conservatives are so far refusing to cooperate at all with the AfD.
So Musk is not "conservative of the year" he is a supporter of certified fascists.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago> He is not "conservative of the year" While I agree, he seems to be trying for that title with these stunts. And in his mind, he might think that he is succeeding.
- adastra22 2y agoThat's giving conservatives a bad name.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoIt is, it is.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoSadly, yes. But US traditional conservatives aren't really separating themselves from the MAGA parties enough. So in some ways this is self-inflicted.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoIt's not just a US issue, see also the actions and concerns of the UK Conservative party post-Brexit.
- adastra22 2y agoMany traditional conservatives are separating themselves from MAGA. They're just too small a faction and disempowered by doing so.
- rsynnott 2y agoAh, but 'conservative' doesn't mean 'conservative' anymore, you see! (In the US, and to some extent the UK, 'conservative', in political terms, is now usually used to refer to radical far-right policies.)
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoAgreed, one needs to identify what they think they are "conserving" by recklessly smashing alliances and institutions. IMHO, it consists of exactly one proposition.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoYou're right. But sadly, The US only has two parties and we more or less draw a line on Progressive (Democrat) and Conservative (Republican). Meanwhile, in reality both of US parties would probably fall Center-Right compared to EU parties. But lately people have been more blatantly making a MAGA distinction from Republicans and MAGA is pretty much your AfD party in a nutshell. Except they are running the show in America for at least 2 more years.