How Germans are rising up against fascism

A conversation with sociologist Matthias Quent about what lies behind the country's great uprising against the AfD

We’ve been watching the mass demonstrations against Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party with interest and, frankly, some amazement at their scale. At the protest’s peak over the weekend of January 19, as many as 1.4 million people turned out to show their opposition to the AfD’s collaboration with other forces on the far right on a p…