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Matthias Kamann saw AM as an attempt to give those in the AfD a platform "who want it to be hard conservative, but factual - not ethnic or insulting. The fact that this voice has been missing so far is one of the many weaknesses of the party." On the other hand, commentator
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with like-minded people in order to "finally give the moderate, the bourgeois, a perceptible and concerted voice." Gronow argued the party had to work harder to counter media accusations that the AfD was a
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party which was formed in 2017 and presents itself as "liberal patriotic" and "conservative." It has been described by commentators as being founded as a counterweight and a response to the more hardline
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faction and networking was done to attract intellectual and middle class conservatives back to the AfD in order to strengthen
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304:Writing in
244:activists.
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