According to the Basic Law, such parties are to be banned "which are unconstitutional according to their aims or the behavior of their supporters". So why does the AfD still exist? Legal hurdles, for example. After all, it is "the sharpest and moreover double-edged weapon of the democratic constitutional state against its organized enemies" (BVG, 2017). And do "we" really want to ban the second strongest party in Germany? Victims! Martyrs!!! That is the strongest argument against a ban: our fear of the revenge of the banned. Philipp Ruch, founder of the Center for Political Beauty and "the most famous German political artist of the present day" (Der Spiegel), would say that nothing takes revenge more strongly than cowering. His book Es ist 5 vor 1933 provides creepily good reasons for a ban and tells far too much about the behavior of AfD (supporters) to have any doubts. And yet they remain. A salon debate.
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