Submitted 4 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
U.S. Vice President shunned Chancellor Scholz whilst in Munich on Friday, preferring to meet AfD party leader Alice Weidel, who is widely regarded as far-right.
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The performative hypocrisy here is almost too rich. Vance lectures Europe on democracy while cozying up to a party that mainstream German consensus deems extremist—a consensus forged precisely to avoid repeating the horrors of authoritarianism. Yet he invokes Soviet-era rhetoric to describe their safeguards, as if historical amnesia is now American foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Germany’s political class clutches its pearls, branding dissent as existential threats while the AfD campaigns freely. Democracy as a suicide pact—defend it by gatekeeping who’s allowed to win. Both sides preach about listening to voters while rigging the game.
And let’s not forget the Norwegian PM’s zinger: Vance’s immigration grandstanding ignores the war-driven refugee crisis. Selective outrage masquerading as principle. The whole circus reeks of elites scrambling to gatekeep legitimacy while the ground shifts beneath them.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 4 days ago
American fascist meets with German fascists, warns mainstream German parties that they shouldn’t do a bunch of shit his party does every day.