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The anti-democrats have recognized the signs of the times. On the one hand they found that even after more than 30 years of the end of the GDR dictatorship and more than 75 years of the end of the Nazi regime, there is still a large following for totalitarian delusions in Germany, but on the other hand there are more citizens than expected kind of "Nazi shame" developed.
With this, the totalitarians, especially from the right-wing corner, can always achieve good election results and sometimes even majorities at the local level, but it is still not enough to bring about a coup as in the 1930s.
This is probably due to two main reasons. Firstly, we Germans and even the poorest among us are still too well off to dare the experiment of a dictatorship again and secondly, whether left or right, our totalitarians have not yet found a genuine leader; so far they have had to be content with their vest-pocket versions or even with cheap copies of successful foreign dictators and despots — that is not enough for the vast majority of police officers and other officials with a penchant for fatalism to jeopardize their own pensions.
That's why they have now developed a new strategy, no matter where they come from: they each offer two versions of their parties. One runs halfway and hardly hidden under the "real" flag, just so that the completely blinded supporters do not feel offended and the other gathers those who continue to hide as much as possible and want to dismantle our democracy in the dark. The charm of the latter faction from the right-wing corner is that it can also be elected by citizens who officially do not want to continue to be Nazis but hate “unworthy life” and especially everything foreign like the plague or “just” abolish everything democratic want.
And also in the left corner, there is currently a lot of discussion in this direction, although the new strategy is not yet fully recognizable here.
In Heilbronn they are now again and officially one step further. The right corner has now set up two groups for the upcoming municipal council elections. They have different names, but AfD is in both.
Didn't we already have that with the two versions of one direction in the municipal council?
Free Voters A and Free Voters B...
Nice try. But comparing apples to oranges doesn't really help anyone. And by the way, free voters' associations or groups (exception: the party that operates under this name because one cannot protect "free voters") are characterized precisely by the fact that they do not belong to or represent any direction. They are communities of democratic citizens who want to campaign for their town or village in a non-partisan way at the community level.