Amplifying fear of an “internal state of emergency” to protect the AfD

What it claims

Discussions on protecting the constitutional order in eastern states are cast as the establishment preparing to forcibly ignore election results. Any mention of Article 91 of the Basic Law is inflated into a conspiracy to establish a dictatorship and use the police against the opposition. Simultaneously, spending on social roles such as equal opportunity commissioners is labelled as proof of the “system’s” ideological wastefulness.

Target audience

Examples (paraphrased)

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• The authorities are preparing to declare a state of emergency and use the police to suppress the will of the voters if the AfD wins the elections in Saxony-Anhalt.

  Kanzlerdaddy (German), 21 Aug 2026 · Archived copy

• The German government is wasting huge amounts of tax money on unnecessary equality commissioners while ignoring the opposition’s rational proposals to cut bureaucracy.

  Kanzlerdaddy (German), 20 Aug 2026

  t.me/kanzlerdaddyDE/14232

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Goal

Convince voters in eastern states that Germany’s democratic institutions are preparing a coup against the will of the people and discredit state administration as inefficient.

Techniques used

• Appeal to Fear / PrejudiceUse of terms like “internal state of emergency” and comparisons to 1933 to create an atmosphere of imminent tyranny.
• Name Calling or LabelingLabelling civil servants and equality programmes as “bureaucracy” and “inefficient” spending.

The real grievance it exploits

The feeling of alienation among eastern Germans from the federal centre and fears that their political choices will be nullified by “elites” in Berlin.

How to counter

• Technique exposure: Note the manipulative use of legal terms: Article 91 of the Basic Law is aimed at protecting democracy from violent threats, not at cancelling election results. Propaganda deliberately confuses legal safeguards with “dictatorship” to undermine trust in the rule of law.

Sources (all time)

• Kanzlerdaddy (German)Tier 35,005 subscribers
  2 posts · 20–21 Aug 2026

  • 21 Aug · Archived copy
  • 20 Aug · t.me/kanzlerdaddyDE/14232