No wonder she climbed to the top of a far-right party so fast.
She’s basically the perfect face for AfD. Lesbian, immigrant wife, ex-Goldman, PhD, speaks Chinese, lived abroad.
So every time people call AfD homophobic, xenophobic or backwards, they can just point at her.
She makes hard right politics look weirdly normal and respectable.
What a packaging
Alice Weidel becomes the first leader in the world who is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife, is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself, opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted two children, and is a hardcore German nationalist but lives in Switzerland