Experts Urge Restrictions On AfD

Reposted by Steve Peers, John Foot, Federica Genovese , and 3 more Steve Peers, John Foot, Federica Genovese, Jean Bonnet, Iikka Korhonen, Christopher McCabe

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Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Steve Peers	44%	27	22.9%
🎓 John Foot	23%	12	8.0%
🎓 Federica Genovese	20%	12	6.9%
🎓 Jean Bonnet	8%	13	2.9%
🎓 Iikka Korhonen	5%	25	2.5%
🎓 Christopher McCabe	-	40	-
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Tyron

@tyron.bsky.social

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

September 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Ben H. Ansell , and 1 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Ben H. Ansell, Margot C. Finn

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Political science 37%, Law 25%, History 13%, Communication & Media Studies 13%, Sociology 12%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Will Jennings	40%	51	28.6%
🎓 Steve Peers	44%	27	22.9%
🎓 Ben H. Ansell	27%	22	12.7%
🎓 Margot C. Finn	21%	17	8.7%
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Peter Whitewood

@pwhitewood.bsky.social

For Matthew Syed, we’ve been looking for German extremism in the wrong place. Not the AfD, the real extremist was…Angela Merkel.

September 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM

by Jean Bonnet

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🎓 Jean Bonnet	8%	13	8.7%

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Jean-Baptiste Bonnet

@jbbonnet.bsky.social

The great strength of democracy : the stupidity and sectarianism of its adversaries (it won't work forever sadly)

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 3h

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

September 20, 2026 at 3:43 PM

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell

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Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Ben H. Ansell	27%	22	12.7%

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John Springford

@johnspringford.bsky.social

Matthew Syed's claim that the AfD is not extremist is laughable. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
In 2017, Bjoern Hoecke said of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial that ""Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of the capital".

Angela Merkel was the true extremist of our age

History will judge hyperliberals as the vandals who dissolved our borders and ignored Putin’s threat

www.thetimes.com

September 20, 2026 at 12:06 PM

by Kai Arzheimer

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Scholar power: 59.7%

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Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Kai Arzheimer	39%	26	59.7%

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Kai Arzheimer

@kai-arzheimer.com

That was in 2019 A vast majority sees the #AfD as a extremist party. #tbp 🌐

A vast majority of Germans sees the AfD as a right-wing extremist party - kai arzheimer

In a recent paper published in JCMS, I argue that unlike other German far-right parties, the "Alternative for Germany party" (AfD) managed to avoid being

www.kai-arzheimer.com

September 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM

by Christopher McCabe

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🎓 Christopher McCabe	-	40	-

Christopher McCabe

@cjmccabe.bsky.social

What? Fascist don’t know how to co-operate with other people? Shocked I tell you, shocked.

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 3h

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

September 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM

Reposted by Edgar Morgenroth

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🎓 Edgar Morgenroth	15%	19	6.5%

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gnida project

@gnidaproject.bsky.social

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany. The campaign promotes a false narrative that AfD is allegedly missing from ballots for the state election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern