WHAT SHOULD AMERICANS THINK OF THE AFD WIN
Over the weekend, a German political party called Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a major victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
AfD won 43.8 percent of the vote, improving on its 2021 result by 23 percentage points.
Three other parties, all various shades of far left, took 22.3 percent between them.
Germany’s governing and center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union, saw its share decline from 37.1 percent in 2021 to 17.2 percent.
Voter turnout was a record 77.8 percent.
AfD’s platform and ideology have dominated coverage, but don’t miss the forest for the trees.
This election was not a vote for anything. It was a protest vote against an incumbent presiding over a status quo unacceptable to a large and growing swath of the electorate.
Over-indexing on the notion that a far-right populist party doing well in a state election means it’s 1933 again misses the political earthquake that has already happened in Germany.
AfD’s victory is important — just not for the reasons Western media and mainstream German parties are focused on.





U.S. — As the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial continued to reverberate across the country, one member of the jury confirmed that white women were now arguing that black men should only have three-fifths of a jury vote.
The Global Model Breaks
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Canada is furious about “Lake America.”
[TTP: Because we are now entering “flu season,” we’ll shift to viruses and immunity support for a bit.]
Capitalism is under attack from classrooms to town halls to voting booths.