The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 08, 2025


German Authoritarianism Returns in the Name of Democracy ｜ 5⧸8⧸25


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Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

147.2858

Word count

1,476

Sentence count

101

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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In the face of growing authoritarianism, the right is losing ground to the left, and the media is powerless to stop it. But what does it really mean to be a fascist? And why is it so hard for the right to speak out against it?

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 On Friday, Germany's domestic intelligence agency
00:00:40.720 officially labeled Alternative for Germany,
00:00:43.160 the country's most popular conservative party,
00:00:45.320 as a right-wing extremist organization.
00:00:48.500 The Nationalist Party surged to second place
00:00:50.800 in February's federal election,
00:00:52.860 winning 20.8% of the vote.
00:00:55.520 This new designation grants the ruling government
00:00:58.580 expanded powers to surveil Alternative for Germany leaders
00:01:02.040 and supporters and sets the stage for an outright ban.
00:01:05.820 Germany has joined a growing list of Western governments
00:01:08.940 that delay elections,
00:01:10.400 disqualify candidates,
00:01:11.420 and ban opposition parties,
00:01:13.540 all in the name of defending democracy.
00:01:17.320 To call Germany's relationship with authoritarianism complicated
00:01:20.560 understates the case.
00:01:22.080 The country's historical memory fixates on Nazism 0.78
00:01:25.120 as the ultimate expression of right-wing extremism
00:01:27.980 and mass atrocity.
00:01:29.720 But that singular focus conveniently ignores the fact
00:01:32.880 that the Soviet Union,
00:01:34.300 which helped defeat the Third Reich,
00:01:36.140 imposed its own brutal regime across East Germany
00:01:39.560 until the Berlin Wall fell.
00:01:41.680 Modern Germany has seen tyranny
00:01:43.080 from both the far right and far left,
00:01:45.620 yet its national identity
00:01:47.260 now orbits entirely around
00:01:49.500 a rejection of right-wing politics.
00:01:52.100 Anti-fascism has become something like a state religion,
00:01:55.380 but when a country builds its identity
00:01:56.960 on shame and self-repudiation,
00:01:59.340 it risks cultural collapse.
00:02:01.440 We've seen the same pathology infect America,
00:02:04.040 where elite institutions push a national narrative
00:02:06.940 defined entirely by slavery and racial guilt.
00:02:10.600 Every nation has dark chapters.
00:02:12.980 A mature society learns from them.
00:02:15.160 It doesn't define itself by them forever.
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00:02:48.740 While German history explains 0.61
00:02:50.600 some of its deep aversion to nationalism,
00:02:53.100 the trend of suppressing populist movements
00:02:55.280 in the name of democracy
00:02:56.600 has spread far beyond Berlin.
00:02:58.900 Brazil's Supreme Court banned
00:03:00.440 former president, Jair Bolsonaro,
00:03:02.380 from seeking office until 2030.
00:03:04.660 Romania's constitutional court
00:03:06.380 voided its 2024 election,
00:03:08.880 citing supposed Russian influence
00:03:10.780 in the rise of populist candidate
00:03:12.660 Colin Drogescu.
00:03:14.460 In the United States,
00:03:15.920 courts came dangerously close
00:03:17.540 to removing Donald Trump from the ballot,
00:03:20.060 while the president now fights legal battles
00:03:22.380 over whether he can exercise
00:03:23.720 his basic executive powers
00:03:25.660 under Article 2 of the Constitution.
00:03:27.440 This isn't democracy defending itself.
00:03:30.180 It's ruling elites
00:03:31.200 trying to outlaw their opposition.
00:03:33.640 Western elites justify their dominance
00:03:35.920 by invoking democracy
00:03:37.420 and individual liberty.
00:03:39.080 That wasn't always the case.
00:03:41.060 The West once called itself Christendom,
00:03:43.260 a civilizational identity
00:03:44.740 grounded in faith, tradition, and truth.
00:03:47.220 But it abandoned that foundation
00:03:48.660 in favor of secular platitudes.
00:03:51.240 The United States has waged entire wars
00:03:53.500 in the name of exporting democracy
00:03:55.260 to places like Iraq and Afghanistan,
00:03:57.760 nations that never wanted it
00:03:59.080 and were never going to keep it.
00:04:00.700 These projects were doomed from the start,
00:04:02.640 yet at least they were wrapping American power
00:04:05.000 in something like the language of benevolence.
00:04:08.300 Today, even that fig leaf has disappeared.
00:04:11.420 The modern West treats democracy
00:04:13.100 as a branding exercise, not a principle.
00:04:16.140 Leaders like Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau,
00:04:18.300 and Keir Starmer
00:04:19.100 love lecturing the world about liberal norms,
00:04:21.900 even as they jail political dissidents,
00:04:24.220 censor speech,
00:04:25.220 and turn domestic intelligence services
00:04:26.920 against their own citizens.
00:04:28.680 They condemn Vladimir Putin's authoritarianism
00:04:30.820 while staying silent
00:04:32.000 as NATO allies crush dissent at home.
00:04:35.320 Democracy has become a marketing slogan,
00:04:37.720 useful for justifying war
00:04:39.300 and globalist expansion,
00:04:40.980 but disposable when it interferes
00:04:42.800 with the ruling class's priorities.
00:04:45.000 Hey guys, if you've been watching this show
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00:05:43.120 Vice President J.D. Vance
00:05:44.660 and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
00:05:46.440 both slammed the German government
00:05:48.160 for labeling Alternative for Germany
00:05:49.960 as extremist.
00:05:51.320 On social media, Rubio went even further,
00:05:53.960 blaming Germany's open border policy
00:05:55.900 for the rise of Alternative for Germany
00:05:57.900 and calling the state's surveillance powers
00:06:00.040 tyranny in disguise.
00:06:02.160 Germany's foreign office issued a formal reply,
00:06:05.040 insisting that the decision stemmed
00:06:06.640 from an independent and thorough investigation.
00:06:09.560 That claim is absurd on its face.
00:06:13.280 No government can independently investigate
00:06:16.080 and condemn its most prominent political opposition,
00:06:19.920 especially when that accusation is extremism,
00:06:22.940 a term that now means little more
00:06:24.580 than holding views the ruling class finds inconvenient.
00:06:28.260 I've made no secret of my dislike
00:06:30.120 of modern mass democracy,
00:06:31.960 but the original concept at least had some merit.
00:06:35.240 Democracy once meant rule by the demos,
00:06:37.240 the people of a particular nation
00:06:39.560 rooted in a shared history, culture,
00:06:41.780 and civic identity.
00:06:43.280 Its legitimacy came not from procedure or process,
00:06:46.800 but from the bonds between citizens
00:06:48.920 and their country.
00:06:50.420 Today's ruling class has twisted the definition 1.00
00:06:53.220 beyond recognition.
00:06:55.120 As I've written before,
00:06:56.380 globalist elites use the word democracy
00:06:59.100 to describe a system governed
00:07:00.840 by unaccountable institutions
00:07:02.480 that they alone control.
00:07:04.840 Populism, they say, is dangerous.
00:07:07.520 Democracy, they insist, must be preserved.
00:07:10.740 But in practice, they oppose the popular will
00:07:13.300 and protect only the process
00:07:15.100 that they have captured.
00:07:17.520 Elections have become sacraments,
00:07:19.680 rituals that legitimize the rule of bureaucracies,
00:07:22.840 not expressions of the people's will.
00:07:25.160 The process is sacred, not the outcome.
00:07:28.220 That's why Western politicians now speak
00:07:30.200 of our sacred democracy,
00:07:32.000 which must be defended not from tyranny,
00:07:34.800 but from the actual democratic movements.
00:07:38.560 Western leaders still try to justify
00:07:40.520 their global power by invoking freedom and liberty,
00:07:43.960 but their credibility has collapsed.
00:07:46.320 It's farcical to hear men like Justin Trudeau
00:07:48.980 or Keir Starmer preach about shared Western values
00:07:52.300 while jailing political opponents
00:07:54.200 and silencing dissidents at home.
00:07:56.820 The moral authority of liberal democracy
00:07:59.120 is crumbling,
00:08:00.340 and the cause isn't Putin or China.
00:08:02.400 It's Western leaders who have gutted the electoral process
00:08:05.620 and replaced it with rule by managerial elites.
00:08:08.920 The Trump administration should continue 0.85
00:08:10.820 to expose this hypocrisy,
00:08:13.140 but it should also take meaningful action.
00:08:15.960 That means offering political asylum 0.98
00:08:17.980 to dissidents facing persecution
00:08:20.100 in places like Germany, Canada,
00:08:22.500 and the United Kingdom.
00:08:23.960 Americans rightly recoil at repression in Russia.
00:08:27.280 They should feel the same revulsion
00:08:28.820 when it comes from our allies
00:08:30.600 in places like Berlin, Ottawa, or London.
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