Since 1949, Germany has based all of their stability and calm nature on the carefully packaged deal of a center-left and center-right party taking 65-to-85 percent of the national vote every four years. You can attribute the method to crafted politics, the state-run news media, and invented talking topics every four years (pension reform, health care reform, etc).
So, we’ve come to a topic of immigration, asylum, integration, and increased crime. The center-left and center-right parties are attached to the Merkel vision. They can’t really move around and remodel this platform and shift on immigration without their own created state-run news media calling them xenophobic or anti-immigration.
From the five parties in the Bundestag in Berlin....the CSU is the only one that leans slightly against immigration and wants numerous reforms. So this outsider and new party.....the anti-immigrant party (the AfD) is the only alternate vehicle for people to vote for, and send a message.
In the end, you can look across Austria and France....both will have elections and go right-wing and have a more negative view of immigration. By November of 2017, Germany will have their election and move in this same direction.
Well, the fact that actual right-wing parties are banned and actual right-wing discourse is censored might have something to do with it.