On 6 September the AfD won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt — the best result the German far right has ever had. The CDU, which had run the state for 24 years, was cut in half. Turnout jumped from 60% to 78%.
This wasn't apathy. Around 170,000 people who hadn't been voting came out to vote AfD. Half the self-employed backed them. Nearly half of salaried employees.
Julijana Zita, host of Counter Stream and based in Germany, joins Mehran Khalili to work through what happened, why the firewall isn't holding, why Die Linke had its worst ever result in that state, and what the left across Europe should take from it.
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