VW is literally closing plants across Germany a we speak and doing mass layoffs, but whatever you say. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volksw...

That seems to not matter for the people that think the way the GP points.

(And they are quite distinguishable. The far right is way worse at it than the kind of left party that wins anything.)

I never said anything about AfD being any more competent than the current right wing regime.

This was true right when Weimar Germany fell to the Nazis also. There's a degree of inertia to politics. We're also talking about a region of Germany that has been economically depressed for decades, with an unemployment rate twice the national average.

Not really, VW just announced that they're laying off 50k people and closing plants all around Germany. They're one of the biggest employers. Deindustrialization continues unabated, and business closures aren't slowing down.

I have no idea what these indicators you're talking about are exactly. The indicators I'm seeing is that Germany was cut off from cheap pipeline gas that its industrial economy was built on, and now there's another energy shock from war on Iran. On top of that, China is now taking over the same industrial niches enjoying access to much cheaper energy which lower input costs across the board.