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The parts of her private life choices have been mentioned in the media over and over and it should be well-known by now.

I'm more concerned that so many people who vote for her and that party don't realise (or don't care) what she stands for concerning social security, economics and the EU.

A Thatcher fangirl

Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady because she stuck to her neoliberal economic line in the face of considerable resistance. She stood for low taxes, welfare cuts and privatization. It's a program that appeals to Weidel, a former management consultant. "Thatcher took over Britain when the country was economically down and got it back on track," she said in the Bild interview.

with ties to China

In the late 2000s, she worked at the Bank of China and lived in China for six years where she learned to speak Mandarin. She would later write her doctoral thesis on the future of the Chinese pension system. 

who'd destroy the EU if given the chance

"We are trying to reform the EU," she told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag in August. Weidel said that if reforms failed, then every country had to be given the opportunity to hold a referendum on their membership of the European Union.