Oh for fucks sake, AfD is 20% of the vote in Germany, Scholz (SPD) lost in part for not supporting Ukraine enough.
Ukraine has overwhelming support in Europe, and for Christ sake they do too in USA, even Republicans favor supporting Ukraine.
It's just their idiotic undemocratic 2 party system in USA that made Trump win, and give him almost absolute unchecked power.

AfD has no chance to get to power that's anywhere near like what Trump has. A majority will clearly be created around them.
The only parliamentary problem is that AfD makes it so neither left or right have a majority, which will probably force cooperation between left and right. But both sides support Ukraine.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

even Republicans favor supporting Ukraine

Not anymore:

https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/657128/250224CountryRatings.pdf

Views on Ukraine are far less favorable for Republicans than Democrats already, views of Russia more positive among Republicans. And I promise you, that difference is getting more dramatic soon. Other articles note this is a dramatic shift from last year.

I hope you are right, but propaganda is powerful, and I suspect the same kind of populism could absolutely take off in the EU.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ukraine: Total favorable 63% Total unfavorable 31

How does that support your claim "Not anymore"?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Because there’s a drastic disparity between Republicans/Democrats, and (not illustrated in this pdf alone), the level of support among Republics dropped massively within a year.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Every Republican parrots Trump. At this point, that's what makes them Republican. They will be in lock-step once Trump's betrayal of Ukraine filters down to their low-information bubble.