Yes, Elon, the Alternative for Germany Really Is Far-Right

https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-elon-the-alternative-for-germany

> The typical trajectory of successful parties on the populist right is that they start out extreme and moderate over time. That makes the AfD, whose trajectory has been the opposite, a massive outlier. The party started out in 2013 as a moderately eurosceptic movement animated by economics professors who wanted to abolish the Euro. Since then, its comparatively moderate leaders have again and again been driven out by more extreme challengers. In the process, Der Flügel, the party’s most extreme wing, has gone from being a small faction within the movement to its dominant voice.