CONTINUED HEADLINE: German Far-Right Surges, European Populism on the Rise, and France's Instability GUEST NAME: Judy Dempsey SUMMARY: Judy Dempsey details the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) significant electoral gains in North Rhine-Westphalia, signifyi
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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HEADLINE: German Far-Right Surges, European Populism on the Rise, and France's Instability
GUEST NAME: Judy Dempsey
SUMMARY: Judy Dempsey details the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) significant electoral gains in North Rhine-Westphalia, signifying a broader European surge in populism and anti-immigration sentiment, affecting Germany, France, and the UK. She notes discontent among de-industrialized voters, challenges in the German economy, and Elon Musk's unpopularity. Dempsey also describes France's governmental instability and the potential for US migration policies to exacerbate European anti-immigrant feelings.
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| 0:23.8 | I'm John backaxter with my good colleague, Judy Dempsey. |
| 0:27.0 | She is in Berlin and reporting for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, |
| 0:32.1 | a senior scholar. |
| 0:33.4 | We've observed not a surprise, but an important detail of a vote, the North Rhine-Westphalia vote in Germany. |
| 0:42.3 | Thanks to Judy, I'm learning German states for the first time in my 77 years, Judy. |
| 0:47.8 | It's a great joy to be educated by you. |
| 0:50.6 | But I know, I go now to two countries I know a whole lot better from reading since, say, the 18th century. |
| 0:58.0 | That will be France and Britain, principles in creating America where I am speaking. |
| 1:04.0 | The vote in France is not yet clear, but the opinion is that Macron's government must go and the Bahrain-Lapens national rally |
| 1:16.4 | must rise. In Britain, the same thing. The labor is firmly in control of the votes in parliament. |
| 1:25.0 | The Tories have retreated to what you'd have to say is a grumpy core |
| 1:29.5 | and rising with very few seats, but much energy is Natchel Farage's Reform U.K. |
| 1:35.9 | What I observed from Reform U.K. and Marine Le Pen's National Rally, and we could go on for other states, |
| 1:43.0 | is a fervent nationalism. The nationalism can be called |
| 1:48.6 | populism. There are many terms for it, but it hinges on migration, the great migration of |
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