After years of politicians and media figures normalising far-right ideas, the billionaire\u2019s meddling is falling on fertile ground<\/p>\n
When Elon Musk endorsed the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland on X as the only party that could \u201csave Germany\u201d, followed by an opinion article in Die Welt promoting the AfD in the forthcoming federal elections the backlash was swift. \u201cGermany must not tolerate Musk\u2019s transgressions,\u201d declared the publisher<\/a> of the liberal newspaper Tagesspiegel. \u201cHow did Elon Musk\u2019s election propaganda for the AfD make it into Welt?\u201d asked another commentator, accusing Welt\u2019s publisher, Axel Springer<\/a>, of betraying its own principles. The Spiegel columnist Marina Kormbaki labelled Musk\u2019s intervention<\/a> the \u201cbreaking of a taboo\u201d.<\/p>\n The outrage was justified. Musk\u2019s apocalyptic rhetoric and alignment with forces often labelled extremist are deeply unsettling in a country still grappling with the weight of its 20th-century atrocities. His political meddling \u2013 from the US to the UK and now Germany \u2013 follows a disturbing pattern of self-aggrandisement cloaked in dangerous ideology.<\/p>\n Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based journalist and author<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After years of politicians and media figures normalising far-right ideas, the billionaire\u2019s meddling is falling on fertile ground When Elon Musk endorsed the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland on X as the only party that could \u201csave Germany\u201d, followed by an opinion article in Die Welt promoting the AfD in the forthcoming federal elections the backlash … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}