Eighty percent of Germans voted against the far right. Can that happen here?

Twenty percent of Germans voted for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday ’s election, twice as many as did so four years ago .

Frida Ghitis: Multiparty democracy is a mess, but it has one big plus: It creates options for people mad at the status quo.

She says the AfD has created a space for fascist-adjacent politics and ideas, from forced “remigration” of immigrants including those with German citizenship, to rehabbing Third Reich slogans and questioning whether SS members were criminals.

Ghitis asks: What will we learn from the German election?.

Frida Ghitis : It's a mistake to assume a MAGA victory in Germany means MAGA country is MAGA .

She says being the puppet of either an American billionaire or a Russian dictator is not a great look in Europe .

Ghitis says the next few years will be hard on small-d democrats everywhere. But democracy is about agreeing to disagree, she says.