Much as the existence of Disneyland signals/signifies that there is an Imaginary Fantasyland existing "outside" of our Society that we can visit, but that we otherwise live in REALITY, the presence of the AfD and other Right-Wing European parties signify to European and American Liberals and Democrats that "Authoritarianism" only exists OUTSIDE of their own political "REALITY" which is that of a pure LIBERAL DEMOCRACY". The Authoritarianism often present in extremist Right-wing political parties (Hitler /Mussolini) are the "exception" that proves the rule, which "but for them", a pure hearted un-Authoritarian Liberal Democracy can exist. The Left-wing political parties believe themselves to represent the normal People (not extremists), and therefore can't be Authoritarian (leaders like Stalin, Tito, or Mao-like extremism notwithstanding). The Left completely "represses" its' own Authoritarian, and often Totalitarian tendencies from consciousness, and mentally segregate their own desire for legislative liberalism from the other illiberal executive/ authoritarian forms simultaneously present in their own systems of government as a defense mechanism to preserve their own perceived self-purity.
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