Stopping the rise of the far right is trivially easy, and government holds the levers. Just do two things:

1. reduce immigration
2. tax the wealthy

Seems they would rather lose to nazis than do those two things.

Edit: seems more than a few of you are rushing to lose to Nazis too

Today, German lawmakers are rewriting bylaws and pushing for constitutional amendments to ensure courts and state parliaments can provide checks against a future, more powerful AfD. Some have even launched a campaign to ban the AfD altogether.

You see, democracy is when...