Hundreds of thousands of people took the streets across Germany this weekend as the nation enters a second week of protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Around 100,000 gathered outside the Bundestag in Berlin alone, said the police, with up to 200,000 counted by the organizers in Bavaria’s Munich. Significant turnout was also reported in the cities that represent traditional the AfD voting strongholds in eastern Germany, like Leipzig and Dresden.
They are enablers but at the same time it’s impossible for them to position themselves into opposition to the ruling parties because they’ve been “the establishment” for far too long. So the anti-establishment right flocks to the AfD as the only viable option for them and gets radicalized.