Vance meets with leader of far-right German party, exports MAGA message
JD Vance made his vice-presidential debut on the global security stage Friday in a scolding speech here, pressing Europe’s centrist leaders to move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power.
Vance also met with Alice Weidel, head of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, becoming the most senior U.S. official to do so. He also met in recent days with the leaders of Germany’s two other major parties, which are locked in competition ahead of the Feb. 23 elections in which Weidel’s party is trying to break through a post-World War II taboo and join a ruling coalition for the first time.
In March 2020, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) classified AfD's far-right nationalistic faction known as Der Flügel as "a right-wing extremist endeavor against the free democratic basic order" and as "not compatible with the Basic Law", placing it under government surveillance.[184][185][186] In early March 2021, most of Germany's major media outlets reported that the Bundesverfassungsschutz had placed the whole AfD under surveillance as a "suspected extremist group"
This who JD Vance meet with. A party that German authorities consider a threat to stable democratic order. America seems to be embracing authoritarian rule.
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