In the eastern reaches of a reunified Germany still navigating the uneven promises of that reunion, a thirty-five-year-old former salesman stands poised to lead the far-right Alternative for Germany party to its first state government victory. Sunday's election in an eastern German state is less a single political event than a measure of how far democratic frustration, economic anxiety, and generational reinvention can carry a movement once dismissed as marginal. What Ulrich Siegmund's potential victory asks of Germany — and of Europe — is whether a far-right party winning executive power repr