Elon Musk’s AfD livestream has sent the German elites into meltdown

Elon Musk’s interview with Alice Weidel has sent the German elites into meltdown.

The interview has been presented as a threat to German democracy.

Weidel 's dull, unenlightening conversation with Musk was hardly a propaganda coup.

But the claim that this single interview may have given the AfD an unfair advantage in the run-up to federal elections is disingenuous.

Far from promoting the AfD , the conversation exposed Weidel 's lack of real political substance.

The AfD owes its growing support chiefly to the failings of the established parties, rather than to its own merits.

Germany ’s elites are so frightened of any deviation from the establishment worldview they are willing to treat a mere interview with an AfD leader as a threat to democracy.