Maischberger talk to AFD You talk here all on the wall

Executes the AfD Germany right ? In Sandra Maischberger wanted to argue , they were also clearly trouble . But against a slick Frauke Petry she came in this great moment of wordy speechlessness at barely . The shipment in check .

On dealing with the right-wing populist AfD heated discussions are flared in recent days : Renowned politicians refuse to participate in TV - duels with AFD representatives . At the same time rising poll numbers of the party . Sandra Maischberger took this as an opportunity for their current program . The motto : " Tabu party AfD - Germany on its way to the right ? "

Avoid or seeking confrontation ? Through the TV debacle ahead of the Rheinland-Pfalz - election the issue of the public dealing with the AFD won extra explosiveness . And there is even the thesis that the new party had become only large by talk shows . After the performance Frauke Petry at Sandra Maischberger however urges a very different question: Whether it really makes sense to talk to the right-wing populists .At least the paper by - Actually, the promise was. Located next to the AFD chairman sat SPD Vice Ralf Stegner, a seasoned linker, as well as the journalist and SPIEGEL ONLINE columnist Jakob Augstein, also the verlegerisch active Swiss AFD sympathizers Roger Köppel, more recently SVP politicians, and somewhere between all chairs of Merkel's critics and AFD dropouts Hans-Olaf Henkel. The bad had to share his experience with a "monster" that he had unknowingly created with. According to Petry former party deputy but has "no idea." The theme: Is Germany on the way to the right? The wanted Maischberger actually know. At least part of Demoskopie there was on this point clear. Reinhard Schlinkert, head of the polling institute Infratest dimap, the single-issue party liked with predominantly male, predict no great future fears plagued followers stand at present. Henkel situate the Republic thanks Merkel anyway rather on the way to the left, while Augstein, tends similarly, the AFD also saw as a product of the CDU modernization. Quickly, the discussion then al dente to the question of how right the AFD. According to Petry and Köppel it is of course not at all, because, after all, anyone who had problems naming - if necessary also with racism suspicious newspaper covers. Positions: For Henkel the AfD "an NPD in sheep's clothing" is today, Stegner called for surveillance by the secret service. Augstein spoke of a "lying party": You try to undermine democracy by means of democracy and try to pursue a dual strategy with the smiling talk show Petry. For this he was kept from Köppel: "People like you strengthen the right-wing." Otherwise, the equally smiling, talkshow proven Swiss liked clearly in the role of the order Petry healing Concerned that the Germans finally explains what it actually with the AFD and the SVP and ever with the right to be. The course: Restrained could feel the whole thing as a clash of two worlds, as well as absurd ultimately depressing the great periods of wordy speechlessness. Put it more plainly: That was nothing other than a 75-minute attempt at least halfway knowledge-oriented debate that just would not come about.The main reason for this had a name and a face. At the eel and steel smooth permanent smile of Frauke Petry all questions and accusations clashed simply from - whether they are related to murder calls from AFD ranks against government politicians or "Profiles", claims to shoot at the border to refugees, Höcke-expressions in Nazi Jargon or references to the infiltration of their party by right-wing extremists. Every time she avoided, dismissed, called something most "unacceptable" or pointed out that other no better or "medial confusion" in the game are. However, they attached great importance to the finding that Höcke was not a racist.
Also a substantive discussion about legal or economic aspects of refugee policy proved impossible. Any attempt by a dialogue once choked under a Petry'schen propaganda barrage, so Augstein could be stated only annoyed: "You talk all here on the wall." Record: Rarely encountered such an event again and again in such a downright surreal way to the limits of the communication is technically feasible. This can, however - it must be said - not blame the presenter. Maischberger were really went to maintain remnants of conversation structure nachzusetzen to insist, to ask the right questions and insist on answers. Only all this did not help. At the end of her remained merely concludes: "On fundamental rules of coexistence-phrases, we can not agree."