The German Far Right Doesn't Need to Win Elections to Be Dangerous
The German Far Right Doesn’t Need to Win Elections to Be Dangerous An Alternative for Germany (AfD) gathering in 2013 in Cologne, Germany. (Strassenstriche, https://tinyurl.com/uy7xrzak; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) On March 3, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency placed the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) under observation as a suspected far-right extremist organization. This move is only the latest step in a two-year process of increasing government scrutiny of the AfD’s activities. In January 2019, Germany’s domestic intelligence ag...