MeidasTouch: MUSK LOSES BIG IN GERMANY. AfD is now likely to be completely shut out of the governing coalition.

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21. re: "far-right ideologies don't die off that easily"...

Yeah. When I was a teen and had a stop-over in Munich for a few days with my parents (en route elsewhere for work), we visited beer halls (Hofbräuhaus) there and since I was the only one of the four of us who spoke any German I enjoyed intermixing with the locals on those long tables drinking warm beer. And yeah, it was more prominently an older crowd with men wearing their traditional Tyrolean hats with any number of emblematic pins. But, the more I spoke with and observed these gregarious older men in their 70s and 80s--I saw buried less conspicuously on those hats--you guessed it- a Swastika. I was shocked.

Years later I had occasion to work briefly with an Argentine woman--probably in her 50s at the time who was the progeny of a former Nazi father (or at least a former German military officer) who had fled to Argentina after the war (along with many others). I spoke with her about that a bit and she talked about it as though we were speaking of someone who had been at Woodstock. They retained at least a modicum of pride for those times and despite the universal horror at what happened, that just did not go away.