Here’s how Germany can defend its democracy – banning the AfD isn’t the answer | Timothy Garton Ash
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Instead, constrain it legally and fight it politically. The world is watchingFar-right nationalist populist parties are making the running everywhere from Washington to Warsaw. So why be so alarmed about a little regional electoral victory for one such party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), in one federal state, Saxony-Anhalt? “Because it’s Germany!” is the almost instinctive answer in many heads around the world.But that “because it’s Germany” needs to be taken apart, like the segments o
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