Sadiya Ansari is an author and journalist who reports on the far-right and migration, including from Berlin from 2020 to 2023. Looking at the election-night scene of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) event in Berlin, you would be forgiven for thinking the far-right party had won. As Sunday’s election results started to roll in, AfD supporters were jubilant. Its co-leader Alice Weidel, the first chancellor candidate put forward by a far-right party since the Second World War, wore a deeply satisfied smile as she told flag-waving supporters that the party had doubled its support from the last election. Supporters chanted...