the Communists are pretty strong in Germany too i see
We used to see their pasters up on lampposts every election season. A tiny party, because the 'socialist' vote is spread across a number of Leftist parties, still one hears ZERO concerns about them or Die Linke and others, all the while the media screams about AfD as "right-wing."
Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany English language page for this German political party.This alone shows that the current political elite in Germany is essentially "internationalist," and the "threat" as they all see it is that everyday Germans are gravitating to that "Alternative for Deutschland," because it is -- ta-da -- an alternative. Scares the heck out of the entrenched power in German politics and media.