Billionaire Elon Musk's op-ed in Germany's Welt newspaper endorsing the right-wing populist AfD has sparked outrage and a resignation. Musk argues that Germany needs a political realism represented by the AfD, despite its controversial nature.
South African-American billionaire Elon Musk promoted the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in unambiguous terms in a newspaper column, prompting the publication’s opinions editor to resign in protest. Germany has been failed by its legacy parties and is teetering on the brink of collapse, Elon Musk wrote in an op-ed for the Sunday edition of the national newspaper of record. His diagnoses of Germany ’s problems came with a suggested solution, voting for the right-sovereigntist AfD.
The AfD has been the subject of controversy, with some of its members investigated by Germany’s political police. Yet Musk in his interjection called on German voters to judge the party on its policies. He wrote, further: “he AfD, even though it is described as far-right, represents a political realism that resonates with many Germans who feel their concerns are ignored by the establishment… Portraying the AfD as far-right is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party’s leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Come on!”. Musk has a major Tesla factory in Germany and his points often veered towards those that intersect with those interests, like the German economy and energy policy. Yet he also spoke of border control, a hot-button topic in Germany and the area where the AfD is most strongly differentiated from other parties. He wrote that immigration policy is “not about xenophobia, but about ensuring that Germany does not lose its identity in the pursuit of globalization. A nation must preserve its core values and cultural heritage in order to remain strong and united.” This prompted a rebuttal by incoming Welt editor in chief Jan Philipp Burgard, who takes up his role on january 1st, and who stated his view that while Musk has impressive powers of perception and is right in his diagnoses of Germany’s problems, he nevertheless errs in his solution, calling support for the AfD “fatally wrong”
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