“Far right” to leftists is attached to populist or nationalist groups to imply “Nazis”, who were never far right, but die hard socialists of a different version than communists, but just as deadly.
“Far Right” really means those that love their country and are tired of seeing it being demolished and overrun by low life immigrants and leftist scum leadership.
I’ll make 4 oberservations:
1. Merkel’s crew arranged a rather poor candidate for their party (instead of Merz), and this gave SPD Party weaker candidate a chance to win. Over 18 months, you can describe the SPD-Green-FDP coalition leading the government as incredibly naïve, incompetent and unable to sell their agenda.
2. Because of the continual missteps....AfD comes up (oddly as the ones who are mostly anti-coalition (the Merkel crew led by Merz now isn’t exactly on turbo).
3. AfD has a marginal list of platforms (mostly anti-migrant, anti-Ukraine war, anti-public TV). If you list the coalition agenda items (probably 30 of them)...they get out there and describe the agenda items as stupid or ill-planned. This draws attention, thus polling shows people supporting them but in a normal election...they’d never vote for them.
4. Finally, to AfD being extreme-right wing? There’s probably three of their politicians who remind you of that Austrian-turned-German from the 1930s/1940s. Their speeches/chatter remind you of the era. Beyond that...AfD isn’t a real contender and I don’t think they can mount a serious campaign beyond 15-percent unless the SPD-Green-FDP coalition went full blast with stupid acts.
Footnote, if you haven’t noticed in the past week...Berlin city election crappiness from fall 2021 has come up in the Constitutional Court. They already decided the city mayor/senate election of 2021 was screwed up and forced them to redo the city election entirely. Well...someone sued because at the same time...the federal election was run (screwed-up as well). The Constitutional Court has to decide if that election will be rerun now (18 months later). If this election has to re-occur, AfD likely takes a fair number of votes over the 2021 results, and will create a ripple effect to worry public news people even more (unnecessarily).