Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election.
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote on the platform on Friday in the latest of a series of endorsements of European far-right parties.
Musk has recently supported European populist-right politicians in increasingly clear terms, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniand Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Earlier this week, Farage boasted that Musk is “right behind” him — and raised the prospect that the tech tycoon would financially back his Reform UK party.
Ah, yes, the dealbreaker for any German politician: inefficient bureaucracy.
Dealing with the German bureaucracy when I don’t even speak the language is exactly why I haven’t explored getting German citizenship even though I technically am eligible. The technicality involves Nazi Germany and my Jewish grandfather being declared stateless by them, but not becoming a UK citizen until after my father was born.
One day maybe I’ll work to untangle that mess, but it sounds like a nightmare.