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Anonymous ID: a9c058 Sept. 7, 2020, 12:05 p.m. No.10558124   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8141 >>8179 >>8203 >>8269 >>8407 >>8440

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" 👌

Anonymous ID: a9c058 Sept. 7, 2020, 12:11 p.m. No.10558179   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8203 >>8267

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The QAnon phenomenon has added a new kind of fuel to that fire.

 

QAnon followers argue that Trump is fighting a “deep state” that not only controls finance and power, but also abuses and murders children in underground prisons to extract a substance that keeps its members young. German followers contend that the “deep state” is global, and that Merkel is part of it. Trump, they say, will liberate Germany from the Merkel “dictatorship.”

 

The far-right magazine Compact, which has printed Trump’s speeches for its readers, had a giant Q on its latest cover and held a “Q-week” on its video channel, interviewing far-right extremists like Björn Höcke. On the streets of Berlin last weekend there were Q flags and T-shirts and several banners inscribed with “WWG1WGA,” a coded acronym for Q’s hallmark motto, “Where we go one, we go all.”

Anonymous ID: a9c058 Sept. 7, 2020, 12:14 p.m. No.10558203   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Hard numbers are difficult to discern, with followers often subscribing to accounts on different platforms, analysts say. NewsGuard, a U.S.-based disinformation watchdog, found that across Europe, accounts on YouTube, Facebook and Telegram promoting the QAnon conspiracy counted 448,000 followers.

In Germany alone, the number of followers of QAnon-related accounts has risen to more than 200,000, Dittrich said. The largest German-language QAnon channel on YouTube, Qlobal-Change, has over 17 million views and has quadrupled its following on Telegram to over 124,000 since the coronavirus lockdown in March, he said.

 

“There is a huge Q community in Germany,” Dittrich said, with new posts and memes that dominate the message boards in the United States immediately translated and interpreted into German.