Sweden election 2022

[KaiserDave]

Yes, the Swedish Democrats...known defender of the Swedish Jews.

The party's first auditor, Gustaf Ekström, was a Waffen-SS veteran and had been a member of the national socialist party Svensk Socialistisk Samling in the 1940s

Early on, the party recommended international connections to its members such as the National Democratic Party of Germany, the American National Association for the Advancement of White People (founded by David Duke) and publications like the Nazi Nation Europa and Nouvelle École, a newspaper that advocates racial biology and the British neo-Nazi Combat 18 movement.

Oh my...

Well I'm just positive they've changed . Jimmie Åkesson is just so trustworthy!

[KaiserDave]

Seriously, SD is not a Neo-Nazi party currently, and they're much better at controlling their fringe then AfD but they are not a friend of Swedish Jews and lionizing them as defenders against anti-semitism (especially given their roots) is just so naive.

[KaiserDave]

If your only evidence for SD's nazism involves going back to people who left the party decades ago or died decades ago, at some point you start to sound like the people who say that the US Democrats are a racist party because of Robert Byrd's KKK membership or because of Andrew Jackson's racist views.

If you acknowledge that the US Democrats have changed, why do you refuse to believe that the Sweden Democrats can change?

I expected this argument immediately after I posted, but you know its actually different when SD is founded in 1988 and not the 1830s. 

I'm not arguing that SD is currently a Neo-Nazi party anyway? So not sure what you're talking about. What they do have is very recent Neo-Nazi roots, and very current inclinations towards anti-semitism and ethnic nationalism. This is cause for concern, and casting them as the great defenders of Swedish Jews is incredibly stupid.