Its a reversion to the politics of the Weimar period with the steady decline of the center in German politics. The Cold War merely delayed its onset.
What next in Germany? Who knows.
Germany’s current government is a Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from the decaying body parts of intellectually and morally dead establishment parties.
Something like that is happening in Austria, where the two parties have been largely sharing power since WWI. Austria almost always has a coalition government, and it’s usually been between the Socialists and the People’s Party (the equivalent of Germany’s Christian Democrats).
“But their popularity is eroding alarmingly”
I wonder why it is “alarming.”
history repeats itself, only the individual actors change.
people are people regardless of the time period.