Kind of looks like they did.

And the problem is that they vastly over evaluate their numbers, ex: the idiots that occupied Parliament Hill in Canada that say they were 2 millions when that's the population of the whole region and when looking at drone footage of the busiest days they were max 5 to 10k.

I mean, a fundamental problem in the German state is how many fascists are simply embedded within the security state.

A German interior ministry report says a three-year-long review found 327 employees linked to right-wing extremism.

What the Germans are dealing with is a wide-spread network of sleeper cells and fascist sympathizers who present as liberal on paper while endorsing far-right policies in disguise. Everything from the crack down on migrants in the name of religious liberty, the shuttering of nuclear power plants to the benefit of the fossil fuel industry, and the state-led privatization of housing and banking and mass media has congealed the German state into increasingly fascist forms.

Germany is playing a big game of Secret Hitler, and it won't be much longer until some new Hindenburg is handing the reins over to a Millennial Era ultra-nationalist in the name of economic growth and domestic business interests. Same shit happened in Brazil under Bolsonaro not long ago. And Turkey with Erdogan. Same thing is happening in Argentina, Italy, and Hungary.

Protests in the streets are great. But... at some point the goal is to be in a position of power, not simply banging at the gates from the outside.

I'm worried that there's a fixation on the clowns and chuds doing hate parades and an ignorance of the folks already behind a desk who are tearing out the wiring of German democracy.

Maybe we can compromise with them and only rob, torture and kill a little bit.

Considering our obesity rates, quite a lot!

This is Hamburg and they do in Hamburg. The AFD barely made it over the 5% hurdle in the last election.

In the last national election, the AfD got 10% of the vote, relatively low. Currently, they are polling at 23%, considerably higher, but far from a majority. The centre right CDU is currently leading in the polls at 31%. Together, these two parties would have a majority.

Officially, the CDU rules out any cooperation with the AfD, but such cooperation has already taken place on the local level without the local CDU politicians involved getting kicked out of the party. Overall, the CDU is probably the only major party in Germany that might consider a coalition with the AfD.

Internally, the CDU appears divided on the issue. Their current leader once talked about allowing cooperation on the local level, but backpedaled after immediate criticism from within the party (source). When polled, 53% of CDU supporters opposed any coalition with the AfD on the state level, with only 36% supporting such a coalition and the remainder being unsure (German source). I haven't found any polls regarding the local or the national level, but I'm relatively certain that support for a coalition on the national level won't be any higher among CDU supporters.

The best part about climate change is that as more extreme methods are needed to combat it as we twiddle our collective thumbs, the reaction and shift rightwards will be even bigger.

You saw how mad they got when they thought they were going to loose their hamburgers. Imagine when they literally loose their hamburgers.

On the positive side of things, the UK is currently doing the opposite of most of mainland Europe - whereas mainland Europe seems to be swinging right, the UK is swinging left.

Roll on the 2024 general election.

Replace anti-far right with pro-XL bully and its the same picture.

Same over here across the pond.