In a Q-and-A, ZDF (Channel Two, public TV) gave an opportunity to the AfD Party to speak.
I'm one of those people who generally shake my head over the AfD, and their program.
You tend to have an awful lot of marginalized characters who moved up in the ranks and throughout the sixteen states....there's probably thirty-odd members who are on TV and quizzed on a weekly basis. A couple are qualified to speak....several of them are just plain out-of-touch with current trends.
Officially, on the books....they are the anti-party. They were designed originally to be the anti-Euro party. They wanted to bring back the old Mark.
Since 2015, they've been the anti-immigration party.
So, via ZDF....the interview reached some point with Tino Chrupalla. Up until this point, I would have said that Chrupalla was progressing to the point where he was a top five member of the party.
The hype, which the ZDF reporter pointed at....AfD wanted more German grammar emphasis in schools (more German-produced literature/poems). Chrupalla went down this path in his answer.
Then the reporter asked....what his favorite German poem was. All Chrupalla had to do....was cite a two-line piece from some stupid poem, and attribute it to someone.
Chrupalla fails completely at this key moment.....no memory of a favorite poem.
I just sat there shaking my head. You had to expect this new agenda item to come up in conversation, and Chrupalla should have had five good examples of books or poems in his mind.
So the idea that the AfD is not prepared for the big leagues? Yeah, I'd say that's pretty much true.
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