Ben Rhodes
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12,021 appearances
36 recordings
12 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5d ago
Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh I think sometimes people have grown accustomed to say Georgia Maloney, but she got elected, you know, to be Prime Minister of Italy.
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She's been pretty far right, but not like an extreme figure in any sense, um beyond some of her kind of hardline immigration policies.
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The AFD is to the right of Maloney, the AFD is to the right of Marine Le Pen.
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Um you know, the AFD has been a lot of people.
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And it's gotten more radical as
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Yeah.
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They exactly they've not moderated.
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If you look underneath the hood, like these guys are are not they're not trying to kind of smooth off the rough edges.
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They're still hanging out, you know, with the the Holocaust deniers and the kind of neo Nazi elements.
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And that's why they were designated as an extremist organization um by German intelligence services.
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So let's let's be clear, like this is not just kind of like
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like a a right wing party that we call far right.
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This is a this is a far right party.
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Um the other prop so th that's bad.
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That doesn't mean that everybody who voted for them is a far right person.
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And that 'cause that leads to the second point.
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The d the firewall that keeps them out of government government, right?
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They can't be in coalitions with other governments in in in the German system is helping them.
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Because what keeps happening is all the parties get together, they keep the AFD out, and then those parties get blamed for the fact that you know the prices are high and you know, the government doesn't seem responsive.
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