Tens of thousands of protestors and Chancellor Olaf Scholz are sounding an alarm: The far-right AfD is currently polling at 22 percent nationwide, and at more than 30 percent in some eastern states. It “actively courts militants, trades in antisemitic tropes, and toys with the proposition of Germany exiting NATO and the European Union.” (The New York Times, 1/20/24; Foreign Policy, 1/26/24; Bloomberg, 1/27/24)