now it reads
The hard right takes Germany into dangerous territory
The parties in Olaf Scholz’s coalition are crushed in state polls
There’s a mirror at archive.today, It’s really a story about building an anti-AfD coalition.
The AfD’s lead candidate in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, whose provocative flirtations with Nazi rhetoric have landed him with criminal convictions, is not about to take charge of the state. No other party will work with the AfD, in the east or anywhere else (although it may hold enough seats in both states to enjoy a blocking minority, enabling it to obstruct the appointment of judges, among other matters). But the large chunk of seats the AfD now occupies will force the other parties into ideologically garbled coalitions.
