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Alternative for Germany and Pinochet Regime

Measured distance across six axes

9.6 / 49.0 possible

The same broad family. They agree within three points on CU, ID. No axis separates them by eight points or more.

Axis by axis

AxisAfDPinochet RegimeGapReading
EC · Economic organisation+04+095DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
CU · Social and cultural order+09+081AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
AU · Organisation of power+05+105DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
SC · Scale of decision+03+074DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
ID · Rule of membership+08+053AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
CH · Method and tempo 00+044DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.

Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →

The evidence behind the widest gaps

A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.

AfD · EC +04

Coded +4: founded on euro policy, now mixed between market liberalism and eastern regional welfarism.

  • Programme textProgramme commitments to abolish inheritance tax and to leave the euro sit alongside eastern demands for higher pensions.

Pinochet Regime · EC +09

Among the deepest market liberalisations attempted anywhere, executed under a military government.

  • Documented act or statutePensions were transferred to private individual accounts in 1981.
  • Documented act or statuteState enterprises, health and schooling were privatised or voucherised through the late 1970s and 1980s.

What this comparison does not establish

Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.

Alternative for Germany

2013– · Germany

Founded against euro bailouts, reoriented around immigration, national identity and rejection of climate policy.

Pinochet Regime

1973–1990 · Chile

Free-market restructuring imposed by a military junta after the violent overthrow of an elected government.

Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.

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