You haven't addressed the fact that the AfD is very alarmist but it hasn't alienated voters. Why is that? What is so special about AfD voters that they are alienated by alarmism from other parties?

Anyway, regarding the specific authoritarian policies, from the article:

The draft contains a number of references to the controversial term "remigration" - the mass removal of people with "non-German" backgrounds from the country.

The party blames the low birth rate in part on what it calls "sexual deviations and non-reproductive lifestyles". It plans to ban gay pride flags in schools.

The manifesto also says it plans to withdraw funding for public broadcasting in Saxony-Anhalt.

These are policies typical of authoritarians.

It also doesn't say how anything would be accomplished--in fact it notes that a lot of the AfD's programme is unworkable at the state level.

And? The fact they these are even put into the manifesto is bad enough.

I do, because I know people who have stopped voting for the Greens/SPD/Linke because they're sick of being called Nazis.

How often are they being called a Nazi? Is that a common thing for them?

Are those the same people who cry about free speech and that we shouldn't censor ourselves just to appease the feelings of snowflakes?

People have arguee "I only voted AfD because someone called me a Nazi" for over a decade and I am not convinced. If you vote AfD because someone called you a Nazi then you would have voted AfD anyway.

It's not difficult to understand the people who don't like the AfD, because they announce it from the rooftops.

It's not difficult to understand the people who like the AfD, because they announce it from the rooftops.

AfD voters are more present in the public than any other voting group. Everything is about them, everyone has to cater to their special feelings, politicians from other parties copy their talking pints, while at the same they want to attack and insult everyone they hate - and then they cry when people call them out for it.

What AfD voters think is difficult to find out, because it's social suicide to announce you vote for them

That is, quite frankly, total bullshit. They are ALL OVER social media, they are being interviewed all the time, everyone wants to know what they think.

What exactly happens to AfD voters? Nothing. They sometimes get called a Nazi. Oh whoop-de-doo. Big deal. Do you know what they call leftists? Or Green voters? Being called a Nazi is nothing in comparison!

It's not sufficient to say, AfD voters in small-town (former) East Germany don't like immigrants

But it is true. I have seen what AfD voters say. I have talked to them. They don't like immigrants - specifically Muslims.

You commented elsewhere that I wrote nothing about the culture of East Germany or how the CDU and SPD fail to respect it. I listed authors, composers, technologists. What else do you want?

How does listing the name of a composer prove that the SPD disrespect (that is word you used) East German culture???

I just shut my mouth and listened to people who have had different experiences in life. I show humanity and humility to both sides.

Clearly not:

because I dare to criticise the narrative that AfD voters want the gas chambers back

Oh god, are you for real? This narrative doesn't exist. Which is weird, since your whole thing is about not making assumptions but listening and yet here you are with this ridiculous strawman which only shows you have not listened but are instead doing the equivalent of calling people Nazis.