As German voters reject mass migration, politicians and the media play the fool

American Thinker ^ | 7 Oct. 2026 | Pawel Styrna

[MtnClimber]

The AfD’s rising trajectory demonstrates that – like throughout the rest of the West – voters increasingly want an end to unchecked mass migration.

The anti-mass-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won the election to the provincial parliaments in the states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The AfD’s rising trajectory demonstrates that – like throughout the rest of the West – voters increasingly want an end to unchecked mass migration and its many cultural, economic, and security problems. It also shows that the globalist, pro-mass-migration political and media establishment continues to ignore and demonize the voters and pretend there is no problem.

Although the AfD did not capture a majority of the seats in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament (Landtag), it came within striking distance. Winning 44 percent of the vote, the AfD nevertheless doubled its share from the previous (2021) election and secured its best showing ever. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it more than doubled its vote share.

The biggest losers were the Christian Democrats – the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz and former Chancellor Angela Merkel – which plummeted from 37 percent five years ago to 17 percent in Saxony-Anhalt. Overall, Merz’s policies, including on immigration, had even lower approval there: a devastating 9 percent. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the CDU got less than 5 percent and didn’t even make it into the Landtag.

The reaction of the political establishment and the media was pretty much the same as in the U.S. following Donald Trump’s presidential victories, or in Britain following Brexit. It was a toxic combination of condescension, finger-wagging moralizing, pearl-clutching shock, and shrill fearmongering. Like the boy who cried wolf, pro-mass-migration voices, both in Germany and elsewhere, labelled the AfD “far right” (while hardly ever using the term far left) and even “fascist,” hoping to terrify whoever would listen

[MtnClimber]

I don’t think the left will give up easily. After all, this is the great battle between good and evil that will never end.

[Resolute Conservative]

They never give up just regroup just like mudslimes in a ceasefire.

[Mr. Mojo]

<< the voters are talked down to and told that they are dumb, misinformed, unsophisticated, mean-spirited, unwelcoming, and, perhaps even racists and Nazis. >>

That tactic may still work with brainwashed, guilt-ridden, impressionable idiots, but it’s increasingly losing its power.

[packrat35]

The left is in the streets of France burning the country to the ground. They know Le Pan will win in the next election, and they would rather kill you then give up any power.

[nathanbedford]

The policies of the AFD are undeniable, commonsensical and essential to the survival of Germany as a prosperous, liberal democracy.

Point by point and nearly word for word comparison, reveal the close, near identical alignment of the AFD with MAGA. That is to the good.

But the good news ends there. The policies of AFD and Donald Trump concerning Ukraine, really concerning Russia, are opportunistic, transactional, shortsighted and dangerous.

The AFD will push American forces out of Germany, our nuclear power out of Europe, end NATO, break up the European Union, and slip twixt the sheets with Vladimir Putin, signing energy deals and opening up to tyranny.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Unchecked mass migration = invasion

[packrat35]

So you are saying they are German First. I don’t see a problem.

[nathanbedford]

So you are saying they are German First. I don’t see a problem.

A German statesman who sees Germany first would see Germany as the first among equals, the dominant partner in the European alliance, the one that prospers as the economic engine of the whole.

A German statesman would eschew a devil-take-the-hindmost policy that strips Germany of its allies, its market, its security treaty that has served as the most successful multilateral security alliance in the history of the world.

[packrat35]

You have still not made your point.

[nathanbedford]

So you are saying they are German First. I don’t see a problem.

The point is, they are not German first but Germany left behind, alone, naked, weak and poor.

That point has been well made by my comments; to this point all we have is your unsupported conclusion: "so you're saying the German first. I don't see a problem." No facts in support, no reasoning to justify. I made my point, you've hardly made yours.

[packrat35]

I guess you’ll just have to keep crying in your beer as the AfD continue to take election after election.

[nathanbedford]

You don't read so good, do ya?