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- The piece warns that Germany’s Friedrich Merz-led coalition and Britain’s Labour government each confront rising far-right support.
- Merz’s coalition, in power for just over a year, now has historically low approval and was praised by the poll-leading far-right Alternative für Deutschland for avoiding the Iran-U.S. conflict.
- The article argues that democratic dysfunction stems from structural problems such as social-media influence rather than electoral system design.
