Elon Musk’s Support of Germany’s AfD Party Could Hurt Trump.
Musk's approval gives the AfD some fresh appeal, but it also gives the Western regime another reason to tear the American “Dream Team” to shreds, or annul German election results.
Germany holds elections on February 23. According to the latest “Sunday Question” survey, the Sonntagsfrage, a traditional weekly temperature gauge of the German political landscape, if elections were held today the Alternative for Deutschland Party (AfD) would be the second largest party in the country. That would not be enough to give one of their party leaders the chancellorship, but it could force the hand of other major parties, like Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), to pull towards the “radical center” after veering leftward with climate change hysterics and – even worse – the obscene open borders that she laid out the welcome mat for starting in 2015.
Germany is a limp-wristed joke now – a Green Party war machine powered by windmills and Chinese-made solar panels. At least they have Eurovision. But I digress…
On Dec. 28, Elon Musk came out in support of AfD for the second time. This time in an op-ed in Welt am Sonntag, a prominent German newspaper. He said only AfD can save Germany.
The lead opinion editor of the paper quit in shame, as is customary now of Western journalists after being caught up in newsroom fights over opinions that differ from the approved regime storylines.
What Elon wrote:
“As someone who has made significant investments in Germany's industrial and technological landscape, I believe I have the right to speak openly about its political orientation.” — Elon Musk, Dec. 28, 2024, Welt am Sonntag.
On Germany’s open border policy, he wrote: “Germany's current immigration policies are leading to social tensions and economic challenges that could have been avoided with a more balanced approach.”
On Germany’s energy policies, Musk wrote: “Germany's energy transition has led to some of the highest electricity prices in the world, which is unsustainable for both industry and consumers.”
He praised the AfD's positions on economic reforms; diverse energy supplies like nuclear; and migration control. For him, AfD represents "political realism" and common sense, rather than the elitist, my-way-or-the-highway extremism that has engulfed the West since the Covid pandemic.
He also said that AfD's ideas on the economy – low taxes, abundant and cheap energy – are the kind of ideas that made his companies Tesla and SpaceX successful.
What the Regime Media is Ranting About:
“Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election,” with X posts and an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany over the weekend, said Saskia Esken, member of the German Socialist Party, or SPD, in the Bundestag. They all say the same thing, almost verbatim.
Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats and current favorite to succeed Olaf Scholz as chancellor, said in an interview with the Funke Media Group: “I cannot recall a comparable case of interference in the history of Western democracies in the election campaign of a friendly country.”
Other SPD politicians said Musk was taking orders from Putin, a typical D student political take. SPD Chairman Lars Klingbeil: “Both Musk and Putin want to influence our elections and specifically support the AfD's enemies of democracy,” that deep thinker said.
Mother Jones, a progressive monthly, which usually rolls out the red carpet for anyone LGBTQIA+2 got upset that Musk said AfD political leader Alice Weidel cannot possibly be a Nazi because she is gay. To Mother Jones, all AfD members are closet Nazis. AfD is only putting her out there so people like Elon can say that a lesbian is in charge, so AfD must be great. Only left wing lesbians are good, remember.
NBC News reminds us that in May AfD politician Maximilian Krah was forced to withdraw from campaigning after he told an Italian newspaper that the Nazis’ main paramilitary force were “not all criminals.” One of his aides was also charged with spying for China, and another candidate faced allegations of receiving bribes from a pro-Russian news portal, as if allegations are the same as guilt. In the West today, anyone who stands against the regime will have a list of allegations against them. See Trump in 2016 and beyond. I am sure Nigel Farage in London will be next…again.
What is The Regime? I don’t like using words we see prominently on social media because it sounds lazy; worse yet, it sounds like you’re parroting someone else’s clever descriptions without understanding the origins. What do I mean by the term?
Critics of Washington, and the Western world’s political institutions and leadership more broadly, often use this term to define their government. Why? If you believe the West is comprised of democratic countries where vox populi shapes how governments behave, makes rules and laws, then I think you can see that most Western governments today are no longer acting in the interests of the citizenry. They ignore popular opinion. Open borders and wars most of us cannot understand are obvious examples. They sometimes act as punishers against a politicized group of people. This new leadership structure that has taken hold of Western governments is “The Regime” – an often hostile power comprised of the elected and the politically appointed that demands the final say over the governed. When people voice their interests by voting in elections or referendums, The Regime is there to twist, gaslight, water down, or ignore what the citizens have asked its elected officials to do. The Regime uses what some refer to as the legacy media to vilify, ostracize, and destroy influential people who stand in opposition to its rule.
Why Elon’s Support Could be Problematic:
I wonder if Musk considered how supporting AfD would give the European Commission more material for the grist mill they want to put him through. His op-ed also gives the Western media another weapon to wield against Trump to divide Trump from the “dream team” he built in the election. The regime lost that election. But one of their tactics will be to rip Musk from Trump’s circle, thinking perhaps that other influential players acting as promoters of Trump’s nationalist/populist domestic and foreign policies will abandon him.
For this reason, Elon’s endorsement of AfD is risky. Will it soften people to AfD? I don’t know. It might. If AfD wins more votes than expected (their voters will probably turn out in droves), Elon’s support could lead the German government to not recognize the victory, citing the usual regime excuse of foreign interference in a domestic election.
Elon's op-ed gives AfD a new look. Talking about the party in the way that he did is one of the biggest German taboos. It shocked the German mainstream media and exposed their bias. The German legacy media represent the established powers. Rather than expose these people and institutions for their failures, the German press avoids all discussion on matters of inconvenient truths -- as Al Gore might have said. Elon’s op-ed shows yet again how the international legion of Western journalists sides with the regime. They are like the old Pravda writers, writing in service of the Soviet leaders in Red Square.
The more Elon allows AfD leaders to speak without censor on X, the more likely the censorship industry will bring political might to bear against him in Europe. He might not care about that. But the risk is that the Trump administration gets caught up in this, pulling Musk from Trump’s circle. Lots at stake here.
AfD’s rise forced other parties to align to counter them. This coalition of Merkel’s CDU and the German socialists and urban left did not stop AfD from growing its base. Perhaps in the near future, these parties will be forced to align with AfD, as is already happening at the individual state levels.
The AfD party’s problems go back to the old NPD, the Nationalist Party, which no longer exists. Some members of AfD do take societal positions against non-Germans; they are not in the majority, however. But if Germany’s establishment does not want a party like AfD to rise, then they should have honored their campaign promises, abandoned open borders, taper its green energy goals, and worry less about Ukraine and migrants and more about their own aging population and child poverty for instance. In Germany, it’s Germans Last. This is especially felt in East Germany. The mood is gaining traction in the West now, too.
AfD sold itself as the only opposition to the Germany Last position of the country’s top leaders. Like Elon, AfD is in favor of open debate and a government for the people, instead of one concerned with taking care of the world.
Despite this, AfD is not an easy group to hold up as Germany’s savior. If this blows up in Elon’s face, it could very well be bad for Trump because I think it tears at the fabric of the “dream team” – something the regime is actively trying to destroy.
On Dec. 29, Musk said in response to the Wall Street Mavericks (@WallStreetMav) account on X that he would consider doing a live Q&A with Alice Weidel. The event would send the Western media into a hissy fit, especially the German media.
Handelsblatt, a Germany daily from Dusseldorf that is aligned with the ruling party, called the idea “unconstitutional agitation”, suggesting they might be setting the table to try Elon for “election interference” if AfD should win. This could also lead to more censorship of X in Europe, something the regime wants. And, as was said earlier, if AfD wins bigly in February, Germany could declare foreign interference and annul the results. (Something the West regime does globally, by the way. See Romania recently, let alone German politicians and media supporting Emmanuel Macron and vilifying Marine Le Pen.)
On Dec. 29, Musk said in response to the Wall Street Mavericks (@WallStreetMav) account on X that he would consider doing a live Q&A with Weidel. If so, the event would send the Western media into a hissy fit, especially the German media.
Handelsblatt, a German daily from Dusseldorf that is aligned with the ruling party, called the idea “unconstitutional agitation”, suggesting they might be setting the table to try Elon for “election interference” if AfD should win. It could also lead to more censorship of X in Europe, something the regime wants.
Notes from an Interview with Alice Weidel on Bloomberg, Dec. 19.
In the interview, Weidel talked about European Commission bureaucrats who “do nothing”. She complained about high taxes in Germany and of course the notorious open borders program, a program the U.S. modeled during the Biden years by allowing everyone to claim refugee status.
She also said that Brexit largely failed because the EU bureaucrats saw to it that it would fail as punishment, adding that for AfD, leaving the EU is still an option if its politics are not reformed.
If AfD got its way, they’d close the border from refugees and asylum fraudsters, lower taxes, and turn the nuclear power plants back on. Germany shut them down after the Fukushima disaster in Japan in March 2011.
Weidel described her party as conservative libertarian and not “right wing”, which is a media label meant to ostracize and condemn. The default is always left and globalist.
“If you look at the German government now, it’s a leftist socialist party. Chancellor Merkel ruined our country. She destroyed our backbone. This is due to socialist policy-making,” she said.
Bloomberg asked if she felt any allegiance to Trump or his populist politics, especially considering Trump wants to put tariffs on German imports. Germany is one of the biggest sources of the U.S. trade deficit.
“When I saw the elections in the U.S. I almost had physical pain (to see) how Donald Trump and his family were disparaged by the mainstream media. How unfairly he was treated. I have to be very frank. I put my thumbs up for Donald Trump. We have huge hopes in his presidency. I hope he puts an end to this terrible war in Ukraine because European member states are actually not willing or not capable of doing something like that; we have to tell the truth about that…we are not capable of that anymore.” — Alice Weidel
She said tariffs can be used effectively to favor the nation imposing them.
“Look at our car companies, for instance. Germany might be hit with tariffs, but Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagen are already in the U.S. making cars and do you know why? Because of high energy prices here in Germany. So the policies imposed by our own policymakers have led them to leave and go to the U.S., because here they cannot produce on a competitive level,” she told Bloomberg.
On NATO, she said that Europe’s security interests are different than the U.S.
“The Europeans should get their act together within NATO. Germany would never be paying 2% of GDP for defense (without Trump). It is within our responsibility to formulate our own national interests because our interests are very different than the U.S. The U.S. is very far away. And here we have a war at our door. Germany could have taken a more diplomatic part, but Germany failed in doing so and I think that Trump is capable of sitting with Russian diplomats, with Putin, to formulate a treaty. Otherwise, to be honest, I fear this terrible war will escalate,” Weidel said.
AfD is also in favor of reconnecting with Russian gas again, along with using nuclear and coal rather than wind and solar. The Bloomberg reporter said Germany was too dependent on Russian gas, and wondered why they’d want to return to that dependency. The U.S. sells expensive LNG to Germany, but the AfD will probably prefer Polish coal or domestic nuclear.
“Being dependent on Russian gas…you should ask that question to Angela Merkel. We want cheap and secure energy. This is what we stand for. We need to go back to cheap and secure energy, or our entire companies go bankrupt and go abroad. They go to the U.S. They go to China. They go to neighboring countries, all because we cannot give them cheap energy. We need nuclear, gas, and coal. You cannot power your economy on wind and solar,” she said. “You don’t have to be a genius to come to that conclusion.”