AfD support is definitely stronger in the East, but it is not exclusively an Eastern party, and (unfortunately) has very significant representation in the West as well -- and in fact more supporters in the West than in the East (though percentage-wise the support in the East is much stronger).

It's also not a "nostalgia", or regional grievance party in any meaningful sense.

In other words, observations in the parent message that you are vociferously attacking ... are basically valid.

If you're genuinely unaware of these facts, I would suggest you attempt to inform yourself at a level beyond that of a few casual keyword searches.

Unfortunately, in the message I was responding to, you were (1) accusing another user of gross ignorance, while (2) in regard to the subject matter, demonstrating extremely superficial (basically inadequate) knowledge of you were talking about.

So you were provided with a necessary correction. To be frank, I'm not sure what other kind of response you were expecting.

> To be frank, I'm not sure what other kind of response you were expecting.

One that follows all the HN rules and guidelines.

The majority of passing readers disagree with the alleged reading considering that they have not saw fit to downvote my previous comments.

So I think it's fair to say this is mostly, or entirely, in your own imagination.

To put it in a different way:

Imputing intentions to another HN user can at best cause an account's legitimacy, credibility, veracity, etc., to remain the same.

It's not possible for it to be boosted.

And given the already moderately suspicious nature of a pseudonymous 69 day old account with so much karma, it's far more likely to reduce it.

East Germany has continued being economically weaker than the West, which would make them more prone to more radical ideologies in the absence of the prior far-left one. If anything, a historical gradualist Deng Xiaoping figure would mean acclimation and full development towards a finding a self-sufficient niche in a globalized market economy, not a wind down from hardline pro-Russian party apparatuses (who apparently were responsible for a post-unification far-right party?). Many dissatisfied East German youth would support the Euroscepticism of the AfD because they haven't experienced the full promises of prosperity from the collapse of the DDR and the victory of the West-led order.