This is how things look going into the last three weeks before the election, after a week of tens of thousands of pious, narcissistic self-righteous Germans dutifully braving the streets with their cellphone flashlights to proclaim their fear and hatred of the horror that is the AfD. BSW touched 10% this last year but now approaches the 5% hurdle from the top, while Die Linke attempts to approach it from the bottom, and aims to hold onto its direct mandates.

Posts on X, Mastodon, and Bluesky crow about the numbers of the Good People who have demonstrated against The Bad Ones while polling numbers remain stable or occasionally show a 1% improvement for the AfD.