Neuhoff: Trump, AfD share priorities

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00:00Now, your party leader Alice Wiedel says she received a congratulatory call from Elon Musk.

00:07Why do you think he was so interested in this election?

00:12Why Elon Musk is so interested in that election?

00:15Yes, that's right.

00:17Well, I think the new American government is largely on the same track as we are.

00:28That is, it's a patriotic government, it's a government which clearly says we first of

00:34all have to take care of our own country, but not of the whole world.

00:39That's our approach as well.

00:41We think as German politicians, first of all, we have to take care of German politics.

00:47We do not consider the nation state to be a bad thing in itself.

00:52No, you find nation states all over the world, and there's nothing really which brings people

00:57closer together than the idea of the nation state.

01:00That's why we have them everywhere.

01:03But this idea, the idea of the nation state has been discarded in Europe.

01:08The left green ideology is a kind of a universalist ideology, which also wants to bring its ideology

01:16to all regions in the world, which makes for serious problems.