Cozying Up to MAGA Pays Dividends for Germany’s Far-Right AfD

AfD supporters at a campaign campaign event. Ties to the MAGA movement continue to improve and are increasingly coordinated.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

A yearlong campaign by the far-right Alternative for Germany party to court Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is beginning to bear fruit.

Though the country’s largest opposition group is a virtual pariah among the German political elite due to its xenophobic bent, it is gaining traction among ideological allies who hold power in Washington.