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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: German Elections, Antisemitic Nurses, and the Latest Hostage Release
Description: Over the past year, right-wing parties across the West have been sweeping elections. Donald Trump in the United States, Argentina’s Javier Milei, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, and now Germany.On Sunday, 83 percent of Germans went to the polls—the highest turnout since the Cold War.The Christian Democrats, the country’s center-right party led by Friedrich Merz, won. But that’s not the big story. The big story is that the right-wing populist party, the AfD, came in second place with nearly 21 percent, the stronges...