The AfD is exploiting Germany's fear of change

Yascha Mounk is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins and the founder ofPersuasion. The Alternative for Germany has just achieved the best result of any far-right party in the country's postwar history. In regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt, a state in eastern Germany, the party more than doubled its share of the vote, and is projected to take about 44 percent, likely just short of an absolute majority.