>Taking over school boards and local boards of elections
Just to play devil's advocate, is it possible that the far right has been under the impression that the far left has been doing the same thing?
The most clear example happened last year, when they tried to take power of the parliament of the state Thuringia. They attempted to remove voting rights to parliament members during a transition in order to strengthen their position.
While this was clearly unconstitutional, they pretended it wasn't, until the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that they were in the wrong. Only then they were like "Of course we accept this ruling", just to pretend to be democratic.
Their current path is to attempt to gain power in the Federal Constitutional Court, in order also influence future rulings so that the they can succeed next time.
This now brings the problem, that while there are many who want to rule the AfD to be unconstitutional, that is, to forbid the party to exist, it is a risky move to bring this case to court, because if it fails just barely to succeed, it would strengthen that party.
So they are always walking on the edge of legality and democracy in order to stretch the bounds, to get away with shortly doing illegal things like saying banned slogans to show the right-wing extremists that they can rely on this party to work for their interests or saying things like "Real men are right-wing, then they will be capable of getting girlfriends" [0]
In the case of the US, I think they now crossed this line. Let's hope that democracy is strong enough, but I still believe it is. In both countries.
[0] https://www-br-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/netzwelt/wie-di...
So they came with a bit adjustes slogan "Alice für Deutschland" (Alice Weidel Afd candidate)
This is why the current democratic parties voted recently to change how this voting is weighted [0], in order to make it more resilient.
> Central guidelines on the structure and working methods of the court are now anchored in the Basic Law, meaning that they can only be changed with a two-thirds majority.
> In order to prevent a blocking minority and blockages in the election of judges in the event of a possible change in the majority situation in the future, the SPD, the Union, the Greens and the FDP have agreed on a replacement election mechanism. If there is no two-thirds majority, the right to vote can be transferred from the Bundestag to the Bundesrat and vice versa.
[0] https://www-deutschlandfunk-de.translate.goog/bundesverfassu...
