On Gauland – David Issacharoff in Haaretz:

‘Turning to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Gauland expressed hope that his administration "will interfere very little in our affairs."
"Trump is not our friend. There are no friends in politics," he told the audience.
Gauland concluded by grouping "the Neocons, the American Democrats, the Transatlanticists in the [center-right] Christian Democratic Union and the German Greens" as proponents of a fantasy world intent on spreading Western universalism across the entire planet.
The crowd rose as one to give him a standing ovation.
Now it was time for questions. The evening's emcee, Thorsten Prenzler, is the managing director of the AfD in the Hamburg parliament. He is also a convicted fraudster, known nationally for a fraudulent scheme that used public funds for stays at luxury hotels. This led to him leaving the CDU in 2010 and later joining the far-right party.
During Gauland's speech, phones vibrated with push notifications about a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the east Germany city of Magdeburg. One of the first questions sought Gauland's views on it.’

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‘I then asked, in different variations, questions about whether Jews were welcome in the AfD and if they could feel safe in a Germany under AfD rule. Perhaps I was on the wrong side of the octogenarian politician, who wore a hearing aid and didn't seem to understand the questions I asked him in English. So I headed for the food.’

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‘Prior to the event, some 100 left-wingers had gathered nearby to protest against the AfD. They show up anytime an official party event takes place there. Flanked by Antifa flags, a group of grandmoms – called Grandmothers Against the Right – sang songs, including "Bella Ciao."
I asked Katharina, a woman in her late twenties, why she came out in the freezing weather on a Friday night to protest the AfD. Her answer was short, her eyes fixed with complete seriousness: "I just can't believe that we are going back to that Germany, less than a century later."’

Read the article here.

The wrong side of Gauland, what else is there to say about Gauland? Whatever Germany will come into existence, it won’t be the Germany of Merkel.

The past might not be dead, it might not even be past, but the past wont be the same as it was for a couple of deacades.

The past is changing in front of our eyes.