The far-right AfD — already in second place after the election — is surging in polls to become Germany’s most popular party. The country’s security services are cracking down on then AfD as an extremist group, causing a fissure with the U.S. government. Now the would-be center-right chancellor just lost the vote for his job in a virtually unprecedented political shock. 

Things are not looking good for German democracy. 

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pretty much the same in every democracy these days, where the right is destroying institutions from the outside and the left is destroying them from within

Wow. Scary development. Also, this is the kind of thing that makes a good tik tok bit. 