@georgetakei

Sadly, so true.
I am so sad the elections over here were before Trump was installed. Maybe we could have been like Canada, like Australia, and like Germany that saw the light: democracy has to be protected and defended, by law, against anti-democratic parties.

@pascaline @georgetakei Germany didn’t see the light. The AfD didn’t get a majority, but their vote share was way up from the previous election. (I dunno if you’re referring to the AfD now being classed far right extremist; that has nothing to do with Trump and nothing to do with law.)

And Farage’s Reform just won in a bunch of English local elections.

@clarissawam

I am referring to the AfD's current classification, yes.

@georgetakei

@pascaline Yeah, that’s been in the making for a long while. And the Verfassungsschutz doesn’t tend to be influenced by current events in their assessments.

Sadly, it will likely not have any effect on voters (and politicians are, predictably, prevaricating on whether to initiate the process to get the party banned).