Like it or not, the far right is heading for Germany’s Bundestag

So now Merkel has to form a coalition with the FDP and the Greens? There was already just the tiniest sliver of distance between the CDU and the FDP, and the Greens in Germany (unlike their US counterparts) are fairly sane. This is not the end of the world, Germany is still proving to be more rational then France, the UK, and (of course) the US.