The Alternative for Germany (AfD), founded as a party in 2013 and represented in the Bundestag, Germany's national parliament, since the 2017 election (re-elected in September 2021), is characterised as a right-wing populist party (e.g., Heinze, 2022; Lewandowsky, 2022; Pfahl-Traughber, 2019) and, … 