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The F-word and the R-word

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Jörg Luyken
Jun 02, 2025
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Dear Reader,

Ahead of the 2017 election, I sat down for an interview with Alice Weidel, who was running as the AfD’s lead candidate for the first time.

Unlike her abrasive public persona, she was polite and friendly—at least to begin with. At some point, I committed the faux pas of referring to the AfD as rechts (right-…

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