Exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television showed support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats at 14%, below the 15.8% they managed in 2019 and far below their showing in Germany’s last national election in 2021.
It would seem the entire world is in a fascist death spiral. I'm not going to to be so grandiose as to say we are all completely fucked, but I will say this wave of fascism is going to likely stunt human progress for the next one-hundred years.
The 70+ age group was the one the AfD performed worst in. It's young people voting fascist here in Germany, the old folks vote CDU because that's what they've always done.
And this is the most scary part of it. Specially that it isn't just France or Germany but pretty much across the board young people voted for biggest populists out there.
I just want to quickly add it isn't just "young people", it's young men. Women are still heavily left but 20-something men want to give the 1930s a try again.
Since it always seems to go along with corporatism and a refusal to admit climate change is a problem, it will set us back much more than that. It's shocking how easily people are turned to fascism.