As we wrote earlier, it was beginning to look like AfD, the political party in the German elections taking place on Sunday backed by Elon Musk, was set to shock progressive elites in Europe by picking up a great deal of voter support:
Germans are heading to the polls Sunday to elect members of the Bundestag, the country’s federal parliament, with the election garnering extra attention due to Elon Musk’s support of the right-leaning, populist AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party. The election was originally slated to take place in September of this year, but was moved up due to the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government back in November.
As my colleague Teri Christoph wrote, a bit of clarity is needed about who and what AfD is–since “…the same people who oppose AfD are the same people who despise Donald Trump and Argentina’s Javier…
