cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/47959472
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is far ahead in the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, a poll revealed on Thursday, just one year before the eastern state holds elections to its regional parliament.
After Trump 1 won in 2016, it was like centrist all the way to the far left across the western world neglected to focus on their own domestic fascist movements. This has been a long time coming and it’s sweeping across Europe. Seemingly a rapid acceleration post-COVID. A lot coming together. People feeling poor with little hope for upward mobility, a major rise in xenophobia and anti-immigration, fear of Russian invasion, anger over more visible reality of being US vassal states, debt/economic crises leading to austerity