What constitutes a Nazi today? If you ask modern liberals and mainstream media, Elon Musk is Dr. Joseph Goebbels redivivus.

When the pro-Trump billionaire extended his right arm, waving to the crowd at an inauguration event for President Trump, mainstream media went ballistic. Speculation was rampant: Had Elon Musk just given a “Heil Hitler” salute?

In Germany, the government and media are equally paranoid of Musk. His support of the Alternative for Germany or AfD party, they say, makes him a Nazi. What is not spoken of (but definitely recognized by the government and media) is that AfD is now the second-biggest party in Germany in terms of public support, even if it remains a pariah to a German establishment eager to protect its own political agenda.

Last week at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance argued that mainstream parties in the European Union engage in heavy-handed censorship and cancel election results because they are “kind of terrified of their own people.” He seemed to be alluding in part to AfD, which, despite its electoral successes to date, struggles to find coalition partners — leftwing and centrist parties refuse to work with it.

But those who depend on the modern liberal press........

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