I hope so for Germanys sake. A 9% increase from the last election, for a party that’s 12 years old… that’s pretty sweeping to me. Not to mention that it’s more so the southern parts of Germany that have an even stronger percentage of AfD support.

Again, I’m not wanting a right shift for these countries, but it’s become clear that things are. We could stick our head in the dirt and say it’s only America, but that wouldn’t be true, and that’s what I was getting at with my comment.

At the height of its power, the Nazi party made up less than that percentage of the population of Germany. It doesn't take much to ruin it for everyone.

Case in point: US President Donald Trump, whose approval rating has historically hovered around 30%.

Those of us with front row seats to the shitshow hope you're right, because even just last week, my dad was saying, "It could never happen here!" when I brought up how the playbook Trump is using is the exact same one that Hitler used.

If we’re saying things are “not that it’s good” then it sounds like there is a rightward shift. Which was my point. America isn’t alone in this trend. To act like it is due to some lack of education was the original OPs point and I simply disagree with that based on the current trends of countries around the world.

The mid-right said they wouldn’t work with them, but as we have seen that means absolutely nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the SDP CDU broke that and started working with AfD. Maybe it’s just me being cynical.

I’m not going to disagree that our power projection from the US isn’t a power boost to other right wing governments. I just think that to claim this is solely a result of poor US education when we can see this happening elsewhere in so called better educated countries means it isn’t really the predictor they’re claiming it to be.

The Swedish mid-right also ruled out working with the far-right. Until they had to to gain government control.

AfD walked away in second, but jumped by nearly 9% over the last federal election. That’s a huge gain in momentum.

It depends on the coalition that gets formed, does the conservative party go with the center left party for 4 years of stagnation or break their word and work with the fat right.
They have done the later already on emigration, passing a non-binding resolution (with only one conservative vote against) and narrowly losing on the second round because their own members of parlament didn't show up to vote.

You mean a libertarian? Yeah we know. The dude is currently wrapped up in a memecoin scandal is oeak libertarian dude

Oh 100%. I’m not ignorant to our complete takeover by morons and the allowing of it that people have here in the states. I’m just saying we’re not the only ones. Especially since it’s happening in countries with “better education” than us. Which means Americas crappy education system isn’t the real problem like the original comment was saying

The CxU has claimed they won’t work with the AfD but…. Link

The incumbents are losing to whom? Certainly not their own parties. You bring up the UK which is an outlier of recent events, but was a predicator of the future with Brexit during their right wing shift. Brazil could be another, but Bolsanaro is still an active threat as are his supporters.

But sure, just say “cope” and it automatically makes my comment wrong and yours right!

I don't get your point here... Russia China Iran are behind this mess and incumbents are losing elections (to...?), but it's only the US that's bad right now? And it's the US fault? And USiams are coping for being worried about other countries?

Is that your point? Because that really doesn't make any sense.