The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 08, 2025


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


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

147.2858

Word Count

1,476

Sentence Count

101

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

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
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
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
00:04:46.480 for a while, then you know that around here,
00:04:48.500 we encourage something that conservatives
00:04:50.080 usually don't do, you know, winning.
00:04:52.640 That's why it was so great
00:04:53.620 to see Donald Trump's electoral victory
00:04:55.680 along with the cultural and political momentum
00:04:57.980 that the right just hasn't had in a very long time.
00:05:01.180 But we also know that the fight is far from over
00:05:03.540 and at some point,
00:05:04.400 the left will start pushing for censorship again.
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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
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
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
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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