With the German election yesterday, another left-leaning government has been swept away largely because of the immigration issue. As I wrote this morning, the center right won the election with the AfD coming in second place thanks in part to a series of violent terror attacks that have shaken Germany in the past few months.
Germany’s story is the same as many other countries, including Sweden, Italy and the US, where immigration has played a role in electing right-wing governments. It’s hard not to see the pattern.
In Austria, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and elsewhere, the far right has grown. In Germany’s election on Sunday, the governing center-left party finished third, behind the center right and far right. In both Canada and Australia, polls suggest that center-left governments will lose elections this year. And in the United…
