{"id":3811,"date":"2024-02-08T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/how-should-germany-deal-with-its-far-right-problem-and-could-it-ban-the-afd-mariam-lau-and-others\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:58:52","slug":"how-should-germany-deal-with-its-far-right-problem-and-could-it-ban-the-afd-mariam-lau-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/how-should-germany-deal-with-its-far-right-problem-and-could-it-ban-the-afd-mariam-lau-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"How should Germany deal with its far-right problem \u2013 and could it ban the AfD? | Mariam Lau and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After revelations of a secret meeting with neo-Nazis, huge anti-AfD protests have erupted across the country. But what would it mean to ban a party riding high in the polls? <\/p>\n<p>The idea of banning the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland<strong> <\/strong>(AfD) party seems to me a lot like magical thinking. Outlaw them \u2013 poof, they\u2019re gone! But the case that the entire party (rather than individual statements) represents a clear and present danger to our democracy is far from watertight. Imagine losing! And in some regions of Germany the AfD represents a third of the electorate. Excluding all of them from participating? Not a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Lau is a political journalist for Die Zeit<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/08\/germany-ban-far-right-afd-panel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After revelations of a secret meeting with neo-Nazis, huge anti-AfD protests have erupted across the country. But what would it mean to ban a party riding high in the polls? The idea of banning the far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) party seems to me a lot like magical thinking. Outlaw them \u2013 poof, they\u2019re gone! &#8230; <a title=\"How should Germany deal with its far-right problem \u2013 and could it ban the AfD? | Mariam Lau and others\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/how-should-germany-deal-with-its-far-right-problem-and-could-it-ban-the-afd-mariam-lau-and-others\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How should Germany deal with its far-right problem \u2013 and could it ban the AfD? | Mariam Lau and others\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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-3811","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\/3811","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}