Die Linke is pro-USA pro-Ukraine now. They became a SPD 2.0. BSW which ranked higher in the polls earlier that year lost steam and especially got hit with the “muh leftists are the true antisemites” stick. Basically the AFD was the only party that “speaks truth” to the “true issues”, because Die Linke wanted to be “electable” and went into the respectability politics. It doesnt help that germany is an extension of the CIA, full of western bases and has an mccarthyism with muh evul eastern bloc.
Not to mention that the greens (who are associtated with the “left” and “identity poltics”) are basically throwing the country back into the stone age; I’ve heard members of the greens saying that the german economy is good and anything else is russian misinformation.
Its exhausting, since they blame the far-left and evvulll muslims and libs (yes including the id politcs greens) have literally co-opted far-right lingua about muslim expats.