For anyone still wondering whether the AfD is a serious political force or just a collection of reality-deniers, the ARD program Farbe bekennen featuring Alice Weidel provided a clear answer. What unfolded there wasn’t just a poor performance—it was an absolute declaration of bankruptcy.
Weidel presented herself as a mix of fact-resistant perpetual outrage and overwhelmed political amateur. When asked concrete questions, she resorted to the usual AfD playbook: deflection. Substance? None. Solutions? Nowhere to be found. Instead, a hefty dose of arguments so detached from reality they might serve in Telegram groups, but certainly not in a party claiming to be ready for government responsibility.
The fact that someone like Alice Weidel sits in the Bundestag—and is even a candidate for chancellor—should be deeply concerning. Because someone who so obviously has lost touch with reality and doesn’t even grasp basic economic or social connections does not belong in a position where decisions for an entire country are made.
The program made one thing strikingly clear: voting for a party with this kind of leadership is voting for chaos, incompetence, and a toxic mix of polemics and denial of reality. And that is something Germany simply cannot afford.
“As we already noted this afternoon—nothing new in the West.”
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