https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-emerges-as-inspiration-for-germanys-far-right/
“Trumpification of the German far right.”
Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany’s Far Right
Sep. 7, 2020
BERLIN — Just before hundreds of far-right activists recently tried to storm the German Parliament, one of their leaders revved up the crowd by conjuring President Donald Trump……Trump was neither in the embassy nor in Germany that day — and yet there he was. His face was emblazoned on banners, T-shirts and even on Germany’s pre-1918 imperial flag, popular with neo-Nazis in the crowd of 50,000 who had come to protest Germany’s pandemic restrictions. His name was invoked by many with messianic zeal…It was only the latest evidence that Trump is emerging as a kind of cult figure in Germany’s increasingly varied far-right scene…Trump’s appeal to the political fringe has now added a new and unpredictable element to German politics at a time when the domestic intelligence agency has identified far-right extremism and far-right terrorism as the biggest risks to German democracy…In Germany, as in the United States, Trump has become an inspiration to these fringe groups. Among them are not only long-established hard-right and neo-Nazi movements, but also now followers of QAnon, the internet conspiracy theory popular among some of Trump’s supporters in the United States that hails him as a hero and liberator…Germany’s QAnon community, barely existent when the pandemic first hit in March, may now be the biggest outside the United States along with Britain, analysts who track its most popular online channels say…Matthias Quent, an expert on Germany’s far right and the director of an institute that studies democracy and civil society, calls it the “Trumpification of the German far right.”
>“Trumpification" 👌