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In Germany, that fate is sealed already. Instead of even trying to build a counter narrative to the far right's fearmongering and lies, the largest part of the political establisment are parrotting them in order to fish for votes in that nasty cesspool of fear and hatred. Of course this is going swimmingly for the far right, because why would people vote for a half arsed copy, if they can vote for the original instead, also this is normalising the far right's talking points. The "Conservatives" of the CDU (had to put that in quotes, because "conservative" comes from "to conserve", not from "to destroy") are already openly cooperating with the far right in some places.
We're looking at right wing populist knee jerk politics of closed borders and erosion of civil rights under the guise of security. From all large parties. They are happily dismantling the greatest achievements of post WW2 Europe because they delude themselves this would win them back a couple votes they already lost to the Nazis (yes, let's call the AfD what they really are), while dragging their feet with any potential measures to contain them. If we're really lucky, we might still see a vote on starting the process of banning the AfD (which will then take several years to complete) before the knee jerk early election caused by selfishness, incompetence and gross negligence of the parties involved.
Germany right now is giving off hard late stage Weimar Republic vibes. I am very afraid that history might repeat itself within not even yet 100 years.
I'm very sad to hear that. The situation will continue to get more dire as most don't seem capable of waking up from their comfortable lull and treating the issues with appropriate seriousness, but we must continue to do what we can.