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Far-Right Extremism: The New Normal? The AfD Between Being Banned and Seizing Power

Report title in the original language

Rechtsextrem, das neue Normal? Die AfD zwischen Verbot und Machtübernahme

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Since its founding in 2013, the AfD has quickly built up a core base of voters and now has a professional party apparatus. At the same time, an increasingly far-right extremist orientation has taken hold. Social media is used to polarize public opinion, particularly through the spread of misinformation. The AfD uses its financial resources—largely derived from taxpayer money—to attack democratic institutions and initiatives; its political platform proposes a nationalist and racist model of society that is unconstitutional.

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Ideologies and Conspiracy Narratives

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Language:

German 

Date:

07-09-2026

Proposed by:

IPS 

Source:

Quent, Virchow & Fabian