Germany’s ‘centrists’ are on their knees

Voters delivered a severe punishment beating to the failing, complacent establishment.

Right-populist, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to new historic heights last night .

AfD has now become the de facto party of the working class, winning 38 per cent of workers.

Left Party refashioned itself as the party of the anti-AfD, bourgeois, urban youth.

It not only came top in Berlin , but also spread beyond its former Eastern strongholds.

Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance , founded last year after a split with the Left Party , failed to get enough votes for a seat in the Bundestag .