„Germany is in trouble, undoubtedly. The AfD is a dangerous party, whose leaders spew hatred against minorities, uphold an ethnonationalist ideology and cozy up to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But we should not give in to gloom. There is still time to turn things around.”

By Anna Sauerbrey in the New York Times. I concur.

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