Electoral gains for the Alternative für Deutschland have shown that the far right can win in Germany. Mainstream parties are touting broad coalitions to keep the AfD from power — but they show little sign they can resist its antiestablishment messaging.
I absolutely hate it. I understand the reasoning that banning the party would likely result in them just doing their stuff underground in an organization and place that you don’t yet have infiltrated with spies, but holy fuck when will something fundamental happen to the AFD? We’re dangerously close to repeating history.
And I don’t think I can trust on the whole “defensible democracy” thing anymore…