Who is driving Germany's far-right poll surge?
I recently read some books on history of Postwar Europe, and they contains a lot of things which were counter to what I had previously assumed.<p>* Postwar European countries were almost all homogeneous, as non majority ethnicities were driven out either during the war (Germany) or during the immediate post war period (Poland, Czechslovakia).<p>* Before Europe became prosperous, it very not welcoming of other ethnicities, even Europeans of other countries.<p>* Apart from America, we have not seen evolution of prosperous countries which are both democratic and heterogeneous, and America faces it&#x27;s own problems due to the same. Europe was not used to these, but the same thing seem to be playing out there.<p>* A lot of liberal European policies came into existence only after the prosperity. A slight dip in prosperity can easily turn things very ugly.<p>Given all this, the rise of far right in Europe doesn&#x27;t feel surprising.