Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5d ago

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Pod Save the World · Can Germany’s Far Right Be Stopped? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

Frankly, those coalitions are not ideologically coherent. voice-verified

Like, you know, Mertz is governing with the Social Democrats in the same way that Olaf Schultz had to govern with the Christian Democrats. voice-verified

You're kind of stuck in this doom spiral where the AFD may be kept out of governance, but then that kind of gives them this outsider status, this anti-establishment status, and everybody else is the establishment, you know? voice-verified

And so that's that combination of their extremism and this kind of voice-verified

strange situation where the firewall, which I think is, you know, j necessary or makes good sense in a place like Germany with their history, i i is c kind of collaborating to normalize extremism. voice-verified

Now, I I I do think that the message to to politicians has to be like pretty fundamental change in in how you're governing and how you're communicating. voice-verified

You know, you can't just govern by saying the AFD is really bad. voice-verified

Like like we've been through this in the United States. voice-verified

Like the Democrats tried to be, you know, Trump is really bad. voice-verified

Then like look what we got. voice-verified

Um and and I I think it's time to really question, you know, how can you voice-verified

Demonstrate to voters, sure, maybe you're not going to win over the most extreme anti-immigrant people. voice-verified

But how can you demonstrate that like you're, you know, Mertz has really prioritized foreign policy? voice-verified

He's really prioritized kind of like defense spending and countering Russia, which is, again, that's good. voice-verified

But like maybe it's time to kind of put that a bit like voice-verified

on the back burner and actually focus on some of these bread and butter issues. voice-verified

Then saying Germany first. voice-verified

I mean a little bit. voice-verified

I mean o honestly, like um not in the AFD not the AFD version of Germany First. voice-verified

That's the scary version. voice-verified

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