AfD verbieten! AfD verbieten?

In the organizer's words:

Parties "which are unconstitutional according to their aims or the behavior of their supporters" (Article 21 of the Basic Law) must not be allowed to exist. But do "we" really want to ban the AfD, the second strongest party? Victims! Martyrs! That is the strongest argument against a ban: fear of the revenge of the banned. Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture from 2013-2021 and a former member of the Bundestag, shares this fear. She was one of the few CDU MPs not to vote in favor of Merz's 5-point plan. "I can't stand this closeness to the AfD," she said, but had still spoken out against a ban in 2023. A contradiction? Philipp Ruch, founder of the Center for Political Beauty and "the best-known German political artist of the present day" (Der Spiegel), says that nothing takes revenge more strongly than cowering. His book Es ist 5 vor 1933 provides scarily good reasons for a ban and tells too much about the behavior of AfD (supporters) to have any doubts. And yet they remain. A salon debate.