On Sept. 6, the far-right Alternative for Germany won 43.8 percent of the vote in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, falling just short of an absolute majority. For the first time since the founding of the federal republic, an openly ethnonationalist (indeed, racist) party, campaigning on a political platform that is ideologically adjacent to Nazism, is close to gaining government power. The fact that Saxony-Anhalt is a small state is hardly consolation. What happens there could happen e
