Laura Ingraham celebrates far-right AfD party's surge in Germany
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From the February 24, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): A bracing slap of reality hit Germany's political elites yesterday. When the Germany First Party, called AfD, Alternative for Germany, came in second, only to the Christian Democrats. And, by the way, it's AfD's strongest showing in decades.
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And the new chancellor-elect, a nominal conservative, knows AfD could win it all in the next election. And so, he's forming a coalition with the hard left parties in Germany to box out the AfD. Remember, they don't have a representative democracy. They're not lucky like we are. But it's typical of the elites to do that. And it's a huge mistake.
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Why should this matter to us, what happened in Germany?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (GUEST): Well, because they've been lecturing everybody about democracy, but half the electorate voted for two conservative parties and the incumbents only got 16% of the vote. So, there was a rejection of them. But, the way their system is going to be rigged, half the people of Germany are going to be disenfranchised, because the Christian Democrats are going to work with the Green Party and the failed incumbents to shut out one out of every five German voters. And then they start giving us lectures.
And then when you step back and you look at Germany, you think, "Wow, they're paying four times the price of electricity that we are. They're running up a $90 billion trade surplus with us. We have 50,000 soldiers and 40 bases in Germany. Their fertility rate was 1.4. They have no energy. And they're committing collective suicide and they're no model for anybody." And yet, they can't even do the democracy thing that they lecture us about. So, they better be very careful, Laura, because I don't think they're going to get a lot of goodwill from the United States if they keep up this hypocrisy. They're very dependent on us, trade, military, et cetera.
INGRAHAM: And Victor, to see Macron, of course today in Washington, you know, he was the elite of the elites, and, obviously, being very polite to President Trump. But, I mean, that era is over in Europe. I mean, they're trying to cling to power, but Donald Trump is calling the shots and Germany is going to have to wake up. And they're saying they want to be more independent, so I say, "Yay." I'm glad they're more independent, because that means we won't be footing the bill as much.
HANSON: I do, too. The more they lecture everybody that they're afraid of Donald Trump, the more they want to be with him. Because being with Donald Trump to their majority population is a good thing. And they know that this tsunami is coming, and it's very Trumpian, and they want to, you know, to the elites, trash Trump, but they always want a photo op. When they went to the Notre Dame Cathedral, he was like a rock star. They're so hypocritical. But they know what's coming. They have no legitimacy and the wave is coming like it did here in Europe.