Hans Kundnani in NYT: ‘Saxony-Anhalt, a former East German state of around two million people, is relatively small. But the significance of the election there on Sunday could be seismic. The AfD is on track to win overwhelmingly and perhaps even secure an overall majority, which would mean that it could form a state government for the first time in its history.’

And: ‘What makes the AfD’s rise especially shocking is that it is much more extreme than other European far-right parties that either are already in power, like Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, or could be soon, like Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.’

As well: ‘Yet what the country needs is not a different chancellor but a completely different approach. Until then, the AfD will continue to inch closer to power.’

What kind of approach? Another war? No more firewall? Maybe two Germanies, as we had before?

(a sf 2226)