Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via Bombthrower,
On Sunday, Germany's Alternative für Deutschland won Saxony-Anhalt, which shouldn't really surprise anyone, but is being treated by the media like some kind of Black Swan event, blindsiding us all.
The AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than doubling its result from five years ago and crushing Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU, which came in at 17.2%. Apparently, if it wasn't for mail-in voting they would have had a majority.
As it stands, they're within three seats of an outright majority (maybe they can follow the Liberal Party of Canada playbook and induce a few other MPs to defect).
Naturally, practically every headline describing the result contains some variation of the words "far right".
We've been through this before.
A few years ago I wrote "What Does 'Far Right' Even Mean Anymore?" and came up with a working definition:
"Far right" is basically anything that contests the Establishment narrative.
That definition has held up remarkably well.
Because if you listen to the political establishment and its media organs, there are basically only two possible views around the problems facing Western countries.
The first is to double-down on what we've been already doing, irrespective of hard data showing that the policies of the last decade have made Canada the poorest performing country in the entirety of OECD nations, not to mention that
