I’ve only lived in Germany for a year and a half so if some more experienced Germans could tell me what I’m missing and explain why things aren’t so bad that would be nice, but it seems like this country is shifting in a negative direction politically from this polling data and it scares me.
If AfD ends up being the second biggest party in the Bundestag next federal election I’ll be quite upset but that’s how it goes I guess.
As a native German and antifascist leftist I’m worried as well, but I don’t think that history will simply repeat itself. The problems we are facing are very different and I don’t think that a party as radical as the AfD is able to gather 20% support in a federal election. Germany HAS become a multicultural wonderland in recent years and the majority supports it! German politicians of the left, center and center-right shouldn’t engage in the blame game. Especially the CDU/CSU has to understand that their role now is not to copy AfD talking points.