{"id":8776,"date":"2025-05-03T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-rubio-blast-germany-for-labeling-far-right-party-as-extremist\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T07:21:09","slug":"vance-rubio-blast-germany-for-labeling-far-right-party-as-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/vance-rubio-blast-germany-for-labeling-far-right-party-as-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance, Rubio blast Germany for labeling far-right party as \u2018extremist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted Germany&rsquo;s government for labeling the far-right Alternative f&uuml;r Deutschland (AfD) party as an &ldquo;extremist&rdquo; political group.  &ldquo;Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That&rsquo;s not democracy&mdash;it&rsquo;s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD&mdash;which took second&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5280643-vance-rubio-blast-germany-for-labeling-far-right-party-as-extremist\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted Germany&rsquo;s government for labeling the far-right Alternative f&uuml;r Deutschland (AfD) party as an &ldquo;extremist&rdquo; political group. &ldquo;Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That&rsquo;s not democracy&mdash;it&rsquo;s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD&mdash;which took second&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}