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Alternative for Germany are performing alarmingly well in Eastern Germany. They're already the second-largest party in several Landtags including Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. They're also overtaking the incumbent party in opinion polls and are pretty much poised to be the ruling party across multiple German states.
Thankfully, I don't see AfD leading the country, but Merkel opening the floodgates to mass migration has spooked a lot of people into right-wing voting.
We should be more worried about France swinging to the far-right. Le Pen has a very good chance of winning the next election in 2027, especially with how badly Macron and Renaissance have tanked their reputations.
Please don't replicate right-wing talking points. She didn't open any gates - she just decided (contrary to all countries around us) to not suddenly shut our open borders when millions fled war and were seeking for refuge.
She basically did, what she always excelled at: sitting it out and doing nothing, then selling it as her political success. Active change was her constant enemy.
I don't have a deep knowledge of German politics but I do know that a major shift towards AfD is very alarming, especially when the main focus around NATO, the EEC and post-war European politics has been to prevent another Fascist uprising.
This isn't me disagreeing with Merkel's decision to take in refugees, but it was unwise from a national/European security perspective to not close the borders and properly vet arrivals. But I do think the swing towards AfD especially in East Germany has coincided with this crisis.
Could one imagine French Nazis?
There actually were a number of French nazis in France during German occupation. It's a topic often disregarded by the countries itself. E.g The Polish government tries to sweep that under the carpet.
I mean there even were Nazis in the US.
There are still Nazis in the US, one of em recently even became president! /S
I mean didn't Hitler idolize the confederacy?
It was the extermination of the Native Americans that he idolized.
I mean yeah if you wanted to take that comment seriously. German was the second largest language in the US before WWII, and the Nazi party, yeah we reeeealy didn't do shit about it until the guys who didn't look like "typical Americans" made us a tad upset.
But if you wanted to really catch my drift I was thinking wine drinking, baguette eating, baret wearing smoking mime with a swastika.