S8 Ep234: PREVIEW AFD PARTY RISING IN GERMANY WITH TIES TO TRUMP-VANCE FACTION Colleague Judy Dempsey. Judy Dempsey reports from Berlin on the rising popularity of the AfD party, which is nearly tied with Chancellor Merz's coalition. She warns of a dangerous affini
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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| 0:15.5 | This is John Batchelor, speaking with colleague Judy Dempsey, the Carnegie Endowment. |
| 0:23.7 | She's in Berlin, of the Bundest, |
| 0:33.5 | the coalition government led by the CDU, Meritz is the chancellor with the SPD as the junior partner, |
| 0:42.9 | faced with the rising success and popularity of AFD, alternative for Deutschland, AFT, which is basically anti-EU, anti-NATO, anti-NATO, anti-U,S, well, there was anti-U-S. There's a twist here. |
| 0:53.5 | Some of the U.S. is very desirable for the AFD, |
| 0:57.3 | especially when it visits, Adelan Musk and Vice President Vance. Judy explains, |
| 1:03.8 | it's German politics, it's populism, it's the tension in the Bundestag of a group that comes out of the East Germany |
| 1:11.9 | and the liberal tradition to be generous. |
| 1:17.1 | And the future of German government is moving towards the Maga element |
| 1:23.2 | and the Republican Party. |
| 1:25.3 | Complicated. |
| 1:27.1 | You bet. Hereicated. You bet. |
| 1:28.5 | Here's Judy. |
| 1:31.6 | Oh, that was a long time ago when we mentioned the diplomatic language, John. |
| 1:35.8 | I mean, this was about seven or eight sessions ago. |
| 1:38.5 | But now the FD are almost neck and neck with Chancellor Mercer's coalition of the Christian Democrats and the Christian Social Union. |
| 1:49.9 | And it's really worrying. |
| 1:52.5 | One is on 27%. |
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