I visited the area of Germany that I grew up in yesterday and today. Best described as Germany's rustbelt, it used to be the social-democrats heartland. It is surprising how many former SPD-voters I spoke to that are now clearly leaning toward AfD. I had a longer chat ...

... with a cabbie that fell into this category, and it was interesting to learn about his world-view. The structural beams of his political view seemed to be: (1) Individual nations have national interests, and economically "safe" people (e.g. people not caught on the wrong ...

... side of Germany's widening inequality) do not have proper national feelings, because they can go elsewhere and find jobs. The people that cannot are the "true" bearers of the national interest, because they are stuck where they are.