Two views of the German Election: Goodwin and von Hoffmeister
Excerpts from Matt Goodwin: “Ordinary Germans have had enough. Why Germany is moving right
Bad news first:
And now they face one final betrayal. Even though the right-wing CDU and AfD got nearly half the vote and over half the seats in Parliament, the CDU will now refuse to go into coalition with the AfD.
Instead, it seems likely they will go for the “Kenya” coalition, with the left-wing SPD and Greens.
What does this mean?
It means there will be no end to the ongoing immigration crisis.
It means there will be no end to the broken borders.
It means there will be no end to the rocketing energy prices.
And it means there will be no end to fixing the abuse of the welfare state by foreigners.
All in the name of maintaining the firewall that is blocking the AfD, and in turn millions of ordinary Germans, from power —from having their entirely legitimate and reasonable concerns addressed.
The only thing a coalition between the centre-right and the left will ensure is that all the mainstream parties will now fail together.
And as that happens, as the German people are forced to watch yet more shocking failures, more chaos, and more managed decline, in the end only one opponent to alp this will be left standing.
Good news:
The centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have the most votes and the most seats in the Bundestag, but fewer than in previous victories.
Voters don’t want the left but they also don’t trust the centre-right party which first opened Germany’s borders to millions of refugees, either.
At the same time, astonishingly, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the national-populists, have doubled their share of the vote and finished in second place.
It is a truly seismic moment in German and indeed European politics, providing further evidence for what we have long argued in this newsletter —that national populism is not only here to stay but reflects an ongoing ‘realignment’ of Western politics which is pushing rising numbers of voters away from the established liberal consensus into the arms of parties that are mainly critical of mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, globalisation, and the ongoing destruction of Western nations..
Remarkably, the AfD has achieved this despite enormous opposition. They’ve been labelled fascists. They’ve been derided as Nazis. They’ve had the media all but openly campaign against them. They’ve had every other party condemn them.
Constantin von Hoffmeister: ‘The AfD and the Axe of History”
The figures of the 2025 German federal election slice through the stagnant air like jagged glass, a brutal revelation of a system nearing its own self-inflicted collapse. The CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union) limps forward at 29%, dragging its reanimated corpse through the political landscape, the SPD (Social Democratic Party) slumps to 16%, drowning in its own irrelevance, and the Greens — those eco-puritans in love with multiculturalism and decay — cling desperately to 12%. But the real tremor, the subterranean growl of an awakening beast, comes from the AfD (Alternative for Germany), surging to a staggering 20%, its ascent shaking the foundations of a West that has lost its will to live.
Aristotle, the ancient diagnostician of democracy, looms over this spectacle like an unblinking oracle. He saw this coming over two thousand years ago. In Politics, he warned of democracy’s slow suicide, its descent into ochlocracy, the rule of the mob, where plebeian apathy and elite corruption conspire to suffocate the soul of the polis. And now? Germany, the heart of the European project, is gasping in its terminal stage, a civilization devouring itself in the throes of bureaucratic sterility. Aristotle’s nightmare — where democracy degenerates into oligarchic tyranny — has unfolded before our eyes, and the people, battered and betrayed, have turned to the AfD in search of salvation.
This is not just another election. It is an insurrection of the disillusioned, the dispossessed, the ones cast aside in the great sacrificial burning of European industry, European identity, and European will. The AfD’s 20% is more than a number. It is a hammer blow to the temple of a senile establishment that clings to power like a parasite to a dying host. Oswald Spengler, always lurking in the shadows of decline, grins from the abyss, his vision of the West’s Untergang — the inevitable sinking into civilizational night — now fully realized in the pale, hollow eyes of Merkel and Scholz’s progeny.
Germany, once a titan of industrial might, now watches its factories shuttered, its energy bills soaring to heights unknown, its streets flooded not with the march of progress but with the quiet desperation of a people abandoned. Unvetted mass immigration further strains an already collapsing system, diluting national cohesion, fueling rising crime, and deepening economic turmoil.
On balance, this is good news – a total repudiation of the far-left Uniparty. The AfD is a moderate, centrist party, as their candidates and policies demonstrate. However, the AfD is FOR Germany. That makes them hated by the Jews and their Shabbos goyim, including Euro-pussies like Olaf Scholz and Christoph Heusgen.
Let the CDU and SPD form their treasonous coalition. Let the Uniparty maintain its “firewall” against the centrist AfD. Only Jews and their tools will continue to label centrists as “far right”.
Too much talk, too little substance.
As much as I am loathe to admit it, the scholarly prefrontal cortex of the White Races rests here at TOO.
You have driven the narrative from being the persecuted to becoming the defacto ideological vanguard of the West.
Yet, for all the good you have done, victory is still not within your grasp.
Why? Because you revel in your own eloquence.
You lack the vision to see that you have cleared the path to your own victoy and refrain from unlesshing the Viking Beserker within.
It is time to bring the confrontation to the next level.
You must attack Trump harder!
Call him a liar for upholding the Holocaust.
Breathe fire upon him for covering up Jew collusion.
Hammer to rubble his hipocracy of defending free speech yet denying it to the German people.
Stabbing his allegiance to a nation committed to genocidally wiping out his own by fueling the incineration of another.
Does this mean you do not love or appreciate him for what he has accomplished?
No! It means that; if he can sign hundreds of executive orders undoing what his predecessor has done, then you can force him to accept the only direction he has in front of him to permanently fix things before his time runs out.
Trump is a man of honour. He takes great pride in keeping his word.
But you are the only ones with the leverage to force this issue to a climatic conclusion.
It’s time to turn your ploughs into swords, your pens into daggers your keyboards into cattle prods.
Force his hand, make him listen or make him come after you.
Here is the translation of the three months old first of the last three video lectures by Dr. Wolfgang Gedeon (Catholic, former gynaecologist with his own practice), who was kicked out of the AfD for “anti-Semitism”:
Today I am presenting my new brochure: “Fundamentals of anti-Semitism and Israeli state terrorism”. Subtitle: “How helpful is the sociologists’ catechism debate?” This brochure provides you with an argumentation aid and a certain intellectual foundation for the debate with Zionism and the Western politicians and media who are in thrall to it.
It is about the humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East for which Israel is responsible and the danger of a world war in the wake of this Israeli state terrorism. But it is even more about the background to the problem of anti-Semitism and the so-called catechism debate currently being conducted by sociologists.
Israel is bombing the civilian population in Gaza and Lebanon. Israel has now killed over 40,000 civilians. On television we see buried children, crushed by bomb debris or suffocating under it. And we see parents holding individual parts of their children’s bodies in their hands.
Desolate media figures then explain to us that this is all just Israel’s self-defense, and even if Israel sometimes reacted disproportionately, it cannot be compared to the bloody terror of Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Is that so? Is it really better and more humane to slowly suffocate under Israeli bomb debris than to be stabbed with a knife by Hamas terrorists? Are Israeli bombs more humane than Hamas knives? Does that make the difference between Hamas and Israel, between terrorism on the one hand and the so-called democratic West on the other?
We are told that 1200 dead Jews in one day is almost a Holocaust. But Israel has already inflicted such 7 October massacres on the Palestinians several times, e.g. in 2009: 1,500 dead civilians in Gaza in just a few days, a third of them children. And then the same again in the summer of 2014: 1460 dead civilians.
We are not even talking about the hundreds, indeed thousands, of Palestinians who have been murdered by Jewish settlers in the West Bank. In the so-called only democracy in the Middle East, the Mossad is the highest moral and judicial authority.
The Mossad determines who is a terrorist and therefore to be eliminated without further justification. The Israeli military then executes the alleged or actual Hamas members with bombs: bombs on schools, hospitals, UN bases and so on.
It doesn’t matter how many civilians are killed, 10, or 100, or 1000. For the Israeli master race, these Arabs are just “human animals” anyway, as Israeli Defense Minister Gallant put it.
In Gaza, we are seeing the ugly face of Zionism. There is hardly any criticism from the West. In the rest of the world, however, the Israeli logic of justification is considered intolerable. And the moral reputation of the West and its self-appointed guardians of human rights is nosediving worldwide.
If you ask Scholz, Habeck or Weidel, you’ll hear them all say that Israel has a right to self-defense. But what is being declared as self-defense is the defense of a status that has been condemned by the International Court of Justice in The Hague as contrary to international law.
And by defending a status that violates international law, Israel and its henchmen want to justify crimes that are more horrific than the most horrific crimes committed by the USA in the Vietnam War.
The Jews in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv can only laugh at “admonishing words from Washington”. This rhetoric is part of the spectacle of fooling the international public.
If the USA actually sanctioned Israel economically and withdrew its military support, Israeli state terrorism would collapse in no time.
But there are no sanctions against Israel because Israel holds de facto power in the USA and the entire West is now a Greater Israel, in which the small state in the Middle East acts as the spearhead geographically, militarily and not least ideologically.
The danger of a new world war emanating from Israel is great. Let’s listen to what Martin Levi van Crefeld, a highly respected military historian in Israel and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said in the Jordan Times in 2003:
“We have several hundred nuclear warheads and missiles that we can fire at all targets in all directions, even Rome. Most European cities are targets of our air force. I would like to quote General Moshe Dayan: Israel must be like a rabid dog: too dangerous to mess with. Our army is not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but the second or third strongest. We have the ability to take the world down with us, and before Israel goes down, the world will go down.”
So much for the quote that I put at the beginning of my brochure. What is the opposition doing in Germany? Largely in the grip of Zionism, it is more of a disaster than an alternative, above all the AfD. Sahra Wagenknecht is at least calling for an end to arms deliveries. Alice Weidel, on the other hand, consults “with her Jewish friends” on this issue, as she says, and uncritically defends the Israeli state.
In the television duel with Wagenknecht, she initially supports German arms deliveries to Israel. When she realizes that her opponent is clearly against such deliveries and that she, Weidel, would not look good with her position, she does a 180-degree U-turn in the programme and announces – completely unexpectedly for the audience – that Germany itself should not supply arms to Israel, but that others should and could do so.
When you hear such drivel and hear Gauland’s words that we should “be prepared to die for Israel”, then you can only warn against the Weidel-AfD! The current rise in anti-Semitism is not a malicious and unfounded delusion of non-Jews against Jews, it is the logical consequence of the terror that the Jews and their state of Israel are carrying out in Gaza and Lebanon.
At some point, Merkel’s “reason of state” must stop and morality must begin! German politics is now no less morally derelict than US politics: self-righteous, hypocritical and thoroughly mendacious. Their morality essentially consists of accusing others of immorality. We are heading for doom with this troop at the helm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xVEiZ_C86Y
Dr. Gedeon, Part 2/3 (three weeks ago): “Is Trumpism good for Germany, or is it only good for the USA, Israel and the AfD?”
The situation is serious. Our economy is sinking and the official policy of mass immigration is increasingly robbing us of the air we breathe. A war in the whole of Europe is possible at any time via Ukraine, and the danger of war is also increasing in the Middle East due to Israel’s Zionist-neocolonial policy.
What about Trump, what about the AfD? Is there perhaps salvation in sight? The answer is no. Neither Trump nor the AfD will make the global situation any better. Trump and the AfD may be able to slightly curb the woke and gender mania and international immigration terror, but they will not fundamentally solve the underlying problems.
Because this is about the foundations of the American-Western system, about Wall Street, the Pentagon and Israel. And it is precisely here, where there is the greatest need for change, that Trump and the AfD are failing completely. With his supremacist “America First” imperialism and his radical Zionism, Trump will make things even worse.
Trump is essentially a new outfit for US imperialism, and for the AfD, much ado about nothing. When it comes to the crucial issues of NATO and the EU, the AFD is floundering around disoriented and ensuring that European nations remain trapped in the American-Western structures of NATO and the EU.
In addition, the AfD is more pro-Israel than all other parties put together and joins the Zionist International of Trump, Le Pen Meloni and co. In Halle, the AfD celebrates Elon Musk, who is connected via video, like a pop star, while its intellectual and political level is approaching zero.
It has dawned on some that it was perhaps not a good idea to have excluded me from the party, and others are even talking about mental suicide. In my latest brochure, I discuss the question of what will and will not change as a result of Trump and, of course, also address the Bundestag elections, including a voting recommendation that is better than any “voting aid application” and better than any AfD party platform.
In the right-wing political scene, second- and third-rate busybodies are now keeping the analytical level low and essentially cultivating trivia while sweeping the big issues under the carpet. I’ve been trying to counter this for years, but the reach I’ve gained in the meantime is no longer worth continuing.
A year or two ago, I still had a reach of up to 200,000 views for some posts, but I’m now miles away from that. And that’s not just down to the algorithmic blocking of social media. And now I’m going to quote a few pages from my latest book and hope that this will encourage enough people to order it.
It has seven chapters:
1) The political climate after the Trump election
2) Turning point, rethinking, paradigm shift
3) The currently most important problems in German politics
4) A concrete summary of the most important political demands
5) The AfD and its history
6) The Sahra Wagenknecht alliance and its program
7) Who and how should we vote?
8) Personal conclusion to the first chapter
I will read a short section from subchapter 1.1 “The West and the new Cold War”:
The new Cold War began in 1998, when the USA and NATO invaded pro-Russian Serbia and bombed Belgrade. The German Bundeswehr was eagerly involved with its aircraft. The aim of this operation was essentially to show the peoples of Eastern Europe: “If you don’t put yourselves under our NATO umbrella, or even try to make a pact with Moscow, we will bomb you to bits!”
The West’s NATO eastward expansion war is being waged with carrots and sticks. The carrot is the EU billions from Germany for those countries that are prepared to submit to NATO. The stick is given to those who get involved with evil and make pacts with Russia, like Milošević in Serbia and Yanukovych in Ukraine: “If you are not willing, I need force!”
Another short excerpt:
What’s next in Ukraine and the Middle East? There is currently a military stalemate in Ukraine. Although the Russians appear to be increasingly superior, the Americans are reserving the right to escalate the situation with medium and long-range missiles and force the Europeans into an open war against Russia, including ground troops.
Trump wants peace on the Russian-European front so that he can fully concentrate his war energies on the main enemy, China. He is speculating that he could use military and economic compromises to make Moscow less dependent on China again and thus loosen the Russian-Chinese alliance, as Nixon and Kissinger did with China against Soviet Russia in 1972.
Trump will therefore show great willingness to compromise with regard to eastern Ukraine. However, it remains to be seen whether this will be enough for Putin, who believes he is on the winning track militarily. I fear it is more likely to be no, meaning that the war in Ukraine will continue for the time being and even intensify with even greater Western support, which the Germans in particular would have to shoulder.
I would like to quote something from the second chapter of the sub-chapter “History and the post-war order”:
After endlessly “coming to terms with the past”, we must set about coming to terms with our present. And things are indeed not looking so good. After veritable excesses of remembrance, a pause for remembrance is called for, at least in Germany. So let’s forget Hitler, let’s forget the Third Reich, let’s forget Auschwitz.
Germany is exhausted from all the remembering. The Germans do not need a culture of remembrance for the next few years, but a culture of forgetting. We should give a firm rebuff to those who believe they can annoy us with their constant references to our history.
It is common in history for the victors to gain sovereignty over the interpretation of events with their victory. How far this interpretation corresponds to objective truth is another question. Under no circumstances can such interpretations have eternal value.
As soon as events develop in favor of the vanquished, it is up to them to emancipate themselves from the victors’ sovereignty of interpretation and, if necessary, to develop and implement their own interpretations.
Quintessence: We should end the post-war period now, it has lasted long enough. Created 80 years ago, its institutions are no longer able to solve the problems that they themselves are constantly creating. The post-war order must now be called into question, and this applies in particular to the German culture of remembrance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85vubnbInfc
Part 3/3: “An excellent speech Mr. Vance, but…”
Today’s topic is the sensational speech by US Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference. My response is addressed directly to him:
Dear Vice President Mr. Vance,
You gave a great speech in Munich and told off the liars in Berlin and Brussels in such a way that they lost sight and hearing. You pointed out that these EU politicians, as recently in Romania, annul election results that don’t suit them on flimsy grounds, and that they put people who burn the Quran in prison, but in Europe you don’t get a criminal law problem if you burn a Bible.
You denounced the fact that these EU communists accuse everyone who disagrees with them on fundamental issues of disinformation, and that through their migration policy they have created conditions in Europe in which European people are being slaughtered in rows by so-called “protection seekers”. That really was a great speech, Mr. Vance, it cut the hypocrites in Brussels and Berlin to the core. Bravo!
Now you recommend Ms. Weidel and her AfD as an alternative. Well, I know this party very well and played a major role in shaping it and its policies in the first seven years of its existence. Today I have to say that this party has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with freedom of opinion and what it was in the early years. There is no other party in Germany in which freedom of opinion within the party is so trampled on as in this AfD.
The guiding principle of this party is not freedom, is not democracy, but “coalition capability”, namely coalition capability with the CDU. Everything and everyone who somehow jeopardizes this ability to form a coalition with the CDU is not only fought against, but excluded from the party. Wherever you look in this party, there are expulsion proceedings everywhere. The best people are now out, they are missing everywhere.
I know all this very well because I was the first major victim of this internal party opinion terrorism that Gauland, Meuthen, von Storch and, last but not least, Ms. Weidel have practiced excessively. Dear Mr. Vance, anyone who propagates the Weidel-AfD today as a “haven of freedom of opinion” doesn’t know this party – or they are trying to make a fool of us! I don’t assume the latter in your case.
However, I can think of a few questions about your policy that we would have liked you to answer. For example, what about the imperial behavior you display towards Canada, Greenland and Panama, or what about your Gaza policy, where you want to expel the indigenous Palestinian population and turn their land destroyed by Israel into a tourist stronghold, which, once rebuilt and ethnically cleansed, you will then generously hand over to your Israeli friends?
A policy of expulsion with the aim of a Greater Israel, as has long been planned by the radical Zionists in the Israeli government. While we are on the subject of Israel: What does it mean when the first foreign state guest in the White House of the re-elected President Trump is Benjamin Netanyahu of all people, a man and politician who many people in this world consider to be the greatest war criminal of the 21st century?
Dear Mr. Vance, the “freedom of opinion” thing in Munich sounded really good, but if we look at your politics as a whole, the suspicion arises that the “freedom of opinion” thing could have a catch, could, for example, be a bait with which you try to win supporters for your extreme imperialist and Zionist policies.
An annexation of Greenland, support for the Gaza terror, expressions of sympathy for Israeli war criminals … none of this sells well. You have to package something like that very nicely, in glossy paper so to speak, in order to sell it. And this glossy paper could, for example, be a brilliant plea for “freedom of opinion”, combined with a successful broadside against the EU-communists.
Dear fellow citizens, ladies and gentlemen: it is right and necessary to give the Brussels and Berlin political bankrupts the boot! However, we should think three times about whether we are doing this in harmony with the newly-costumed US imperialists around Donald Trump. Donald Trump wants to weaken and break up the Sino-Russian alliance geostrategically, just as Henri Kissinger once did. He is prepared to sacrifice the Europeans to achieve this.
Our response should be to make contact with Russia and Putin from our side. Trump’s flirtation with Russia will not last, because the economic, political and military differences between the USA and Russia are too great, see Wall Street versus BRICS states, see the Middle East conflict between Israel and Iran, and so on. For us, cooperation with the BRICS countries would be better in the long run than an alliance with the USA, which wants to wage a trade war against us, ruin us, and turn the Russians against us.
Geopolitical quintessence: Trump wants to wrest the Russians away from the Chinese and humiliate and vassalize the Europeans. In response, the official Europeans now want to take action against Putin without Trump. In Europe’s interest, however, it would make sense to take action against Trump with Putin. Because, ladies and gentlemen, compared to American imperialism, Russian imperialism is at best a house cat that eats mice.
American imperialism, however, is a tiger that eats people. If the Europeans do not understand this difference, they will soon be completely devoured by the American tiger. That is the quintessence of “America First”. Unfortunately, not one of the parties taking part in the Bundestag elections has understood this, perhaps the BSW a little, but that is not enough for a truly anti-imperialist and anti-globalist opposition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkMBSH2A_8Q
The AFD is the only hope on the horizon for Germany.I am pleased it is making progress and hope CDU coalition government will fall apart and AFD can become major part of new ruling coalition.The Germans have been unbelievably hammered with so much communist inspired guilt.We are lucky millions of Germany can still think for themselves.The most revolting group in Germany is the Greens.They love immigration,German guilt ,green crap,and are the most vociferous warmongers on Ukraine.What far-left swine.
CDU is Angela Markel’s party and opened the floodgates to orc immigration. How is this not just more of the same?
Merz for Chancellor, Schmerz for Germany.
“Kosher politics” (Jew-friendly pseudo-nationalism) is like drinking non-alc beer, or making love without the private parts: all the motions, none of the pleasure. It fizzles out like a soap bubble, because it does not want to create an effect at all!
It is and remains pure “symptom therapy” that consciously and deliberately excludes and ignores the actual causes. And so it is and can only be part of the Jewish system itself.
To achieve this grotesque contortion, this split, special selection criteria and character prerequisites are required: spinelessness, hypocrisy, the most persistent denial of truth, and of course the highly creative ability to convince oneself that this deeply contradictory concept is coherent and congruent.
https://unherd.com/2025/02/will-merz-sell-germany-to-blackrock/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCCXuGQOx98
https://unherd.com/?s=germany
“UnHerd is owned and published by Paul Marshall. […] His company started with $50 million, half of which was from George Soros. Marshall worked for S. G. Warburg & Co.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Marshall_(investor)
Un-Herd is a mixed bag, but better than Quillette or even Spiked when it comes to the usual suspects. The Soros “benefaction” is worrying, though he is no particular friend to Likud & Co. I wonder if he has subsidised PRIVATE EYE which nevertheless regularly publishes witty attacks on Netenyahu and the Zionist establishment. Ten Jews, 12 opinions, unless they all feel existentially threatened, as with Hitler.
Yet again, “Ms. Emma,” “she” of several sexes and many names, warns us neither to fear nor to offend the Jews. They are, for the most part, good fellow citizens and benefactors of all mankind—so long as they aren’t rubbed the wrong way. Channeling the Wizard of Oz, “she” tells us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Just as “she” does.
“Pierre de Craon” (whoever he or she is) adds distortion to the usual personal abuse. A few Jews have indeed been benefactors in areas like astrophysics and medical research, while others have had harmful effects, such as running “white slavery”, promoting usury and vulture capitalism, leading the early phase of Soviet communism, running the “psycho-analysis” racket, and maltreating Palestinians. Their ethnocentric nepotism has also presented problems for many societies – ancient, medieval and modern – prompting in some cases a violent reaction which they nurse as the “longest hatred”.
Any Jew aware of Hitler’s speeches and “Mein Kampf” and later the NS movie “Der ewige Jew”, however, would have felt “racially” endangered, and therefore responded accordingly. This has nothing to do with subsequent Holocaust fabrications, as exposed by Carlo Mattogno, Peter Winter and Carlos Porter.
My main contention is that just attacking all Jews with gross fantasy and shallow vituperation, rather than with exact argument and evidence, is foolishly counter-productive.
Why does our Chatelain de Craon not devote his efforts instead to refuting contributors here who claim that the Christian religion is Jewish and therefore the source of our miseries?
@ Emma Smith
While Nietzsche and others can be quoted to support this arguable view that Christianity was a Jewish attack on the Roman Empire, many Jews and liberal Christians hold that the “New” Testament was responsible for mass-murder in WW2; see e.g. Shoshana Koff, “Christianity’s Role in the Holocaust,” Guided History, online; in addition: R. L. Braham, “Origins of the Holocaust” (1986); J. Carroll, “Constantine’s Sword” (2002); M. Hay, “Roots of Christian Anti-Semitism” (1981); J. Isaac, “The Teaching of Contempt” (1964); J. Kaufman, “Jew Hatred” (2001); W. Nicholls, “Christian Anti-Semitism: A History of Hate” (1995).
Despite their NT fundamentalism, this stuff has not deterred Christian Zionists from welcoming an Arab bloodbath.