“Deport, deport, deport!”

A Critical Engagement with the Views of AfD Politician Stephan Protschka

ISBN 9783565662548

An Interview by Heinz Michael Vilsmeier

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Cover of the book “Deport, deport, deport!” by Heinz Michael Vilsmeier. The title appears prominently in large, multi-line lettering at the center, followed by the subtitle: “A Critical Engagement with the Views of AfD Politician Stephan Protschka.” In the middle of the cover is a photograph of Stephan Protschka seated in front of an AfD backdrop during an interview. At the bottom, Heinz Michael Vilsmeier is named as the interviewer.
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“Deport, deport, deport!” documents two extensive, authorized conversations with Stephan Protschka, member of the Bundestag and Bavarian state chairman of the AfD.

The interviews address migration and “remigration,” public broadcasting, family policy (“menstruation rooms” in kindergartens), agriculture, climate policy, the EU, questions of war and peace, internal party conflicts — and the AfD’s claim to govern.

Germany is facing several important state elections. At the same time, signals from the BSW in the direction of the AfD indicate a willingness to form shifting majorities — and thus raise fundamental questions about the normalization of this party. This book is not a party-political recommendation, but a document of political language — and an invitation to look closely: at how a leading AfD politician argues, how he frames conflicts, how he defines opponents, and how he speaks about power.

Sample reading

The electric car is definitely not an innovation!

Stephan Protschka: Well, that is all right! But a factory like that and a warehouse like the ones you mean, many of which have been built along the motorway in our area over the past few years, partly also thanks to BMW, I would say. I mean, battery production is supposed to remain near us, which is right and important. If one already thinks one absolutely has to build electric cars — the market itself should decide, and not politics, really — then it is important at least that production stays with us, that the jobs stay with us. But such a filthy wind turbine …

HMV: So that means you are quite in favour of electrifying individual transport?

Stephan Protschka: No! I did not say I am in favour; I said the economy has to decide that, the consumer has to decide that.

HMV: But BMW has made decisions; they have invested a great deal in the production of electric cars.

Stephan Protschka: If BMW thinks it can survive with that, then that is BMW’s decision. That is the free market economy we once had in Germany. We actually have a social market economy — but unfortunately that was transformed into a socialist market economy, even under CSU and CDU. But how far that gets them can now be seen with VW: they want to close three plants. Those are …

HMV: VW missed quite a few things. So there are …

Stephan Protschka: Thanks to the Greens.

HMV: No, no, at the level of management.

Stephan Protschka: Because a Green politician sits on it and is responsible for it …

HMV: … A Green politician influenced the board decision?

Stephan Protschka: Well, of course, she sits there too. Because the state of Lower Saxony holds 25 percent of the shares. She has a blocking minority, that woman, she really sits there! A single Green politician who can decide that, she comes to VW and …

HMV: Yes, yes, what I mean is that VW ultimately delayed the transition to electric mobility for too long.

Stephan Protschka: No, the three plants that are now being closed are plants where electric cars are built! Because they are not being sold!  

Not because VW missed the boat, but because nobody wants to drive them! Quite honestly, why should I drive an electric car where I am not allowed to heat in winter? Then instead of the stated 300 kilometres I get barely 150 kilometres. In summer I am not allowed to switch on the air conditioning. It may perhaps work in the future. And if someone thinks he wants to drive that instead of cars … then everything is fine!   

People should decide for themselves what they want. But I cannot, on the one hand, shut down nuclear power plants, buy electricity from dirty nuclear power plants in Czechia and France, while first telling me I am no longer allowed to buy a vacuum cleaner with more than 900 watts, which the EU decided. On the other hand, I have to drive an electric car but do not even have the electricity anymore to charge it.

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