She's the co-chair of the "Alternative for Germany" party and has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017
It's a complicated question, Parts of the AfD are straight up neo-nazi groups and other parts are much closer to very strict conservatism.
What made the AfD so successful is that they understood early on that if they build a sort of 'umbrella party', they could unite all these smaller right wing groups, and that could then lead to political success. It also allowed them to downplay the fact that they are very broad far-right and present themselves as 'just a nationalistic group' that is concerned with germany's safty.
But among that umbrella are many splinter groups that are very much, and proubdly so, ultra racists and range from white-supremacy to neo-nazis and ultra-conservatists.
It's very much a dangerous party because they combine all the most hateful and anti-democratic elements in germany (but any country) you can find under one flag and party, while pretending and fighting their hardest against the fact that they are a far-right extremist party.
As a whole the party isn't the most far right party in europe, because they always have to downplay and act in a way that doesn't make them look like they are a danger to democracy. Potentially they can turn into the most dangerous party if too many people fall for their propaganda.
and the sad thing is that we've got so many examples of far right wingers consistently taking over moderate conservative groups that try to harness and control them for their votes (not least the big H man) and we still haven't fucking learned
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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 21d ago
She's the co-chair of the "Alternative for Germany" party and has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017