Another step to the right

Yes but no, from what I can gather. AfD didn’t win the election, but they had the second-highest proportion of the vote with 20%… which doesn’t sound like much on its own, but in real terms that was ten million people who voted for neo-Nazism (or about one in every eight people in the country). Twice as many as voted for them in 2021. And though it’s going to have to be a coalition of left and right parties, it’s going to lean more conservative than otherwise; the likely new Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, looks like a proper right-wing shit, not as bad as the AfD candidate (a lesbian in a relationship with another woman, but who opposes same-sex marriage and “gender idiocy”) but not actually good as such… except that he’s refused co-operation with AfD and he seems to really hate Mushroom Cock, to the point where he’s been talking a big game about Europe backing away from the US and finding a new alternative to NATO without them. So, possibly interesting times ahead in Europe? Just hopefully not in the Chinese sense…