Your party is high in the polls. In Sonneberg, the AfD provides a district administrator for the first time. AfD boss Alice Weidel on right-wing extremists in her party and the hatred they stir up.
Ms. Weidel, we imagine it would be incredibly exhausting to be Alice Weidel.
It is indeed special to be Alice Weidel. I polarize wherever I go, constantly encountering people who are emotional. Of course it’s not that easy.
We actually thought: It must be terrible to live like you do. Listening to you in the Bundestag, at appearances and press conferences, one gets the impression that you feel constantly surrounded by dark forces, consumed by fear of “criminal foreigners”, “globalists”, “bureaucracy monsters” like ours threaten the country. Do you enjoy anything in life?
I have a lot of joy in life. You should notice that in my personal dealings.
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