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Over the past year, right-wing parties across the West have been sweeping elections: Donald Trump in the United States, Javier Milei in Argentina, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and now, Germany.

On Sunday, 83 percent of Germans went to the polls—the highest turnout since the Cold War.

The Christian Democrats, the country’s center-r…