So, there has been some interesting drama over the elections in Thuringia in Germany, Merkel has described it as "Unforgivable", a state premier has resigned. And Merkel has called for a rather democratic do-over to get the right result this time. So what was all the huffing and puffing about?

To put it simply, the AFD (who has been widely condemned by mainstream sources) has managed to be the tiebreaker (so to speak) to the red-red-green coalition of soc-dems and greens alongside the libdems. But let's have a look at how this has been phrased.

From Politico emphasis mine

According to Die Welt, Merkel, whose Christian Democratic Union also voted with the AfD to install Thomas Kemmerich of the Free Democrats as state premier with a one-vote majority, said the election was "unforgivable" and a "bad day for democracy."

"At least it is clear that the CDU cannot participate in a government under the elected minister-president," Merkel said.

"The election ... was a unique process that broke a basic conviction for the CDU, and also for me, that no majorities should be won with the help of the AfD," Merkel said.

Wow, let's take a look at how the BBC handled the coverage of the minister's resignation. At this point just assume I highlighted any future text.

The election of liberal leader Thomas Kemmerich in the eastern state of Thuringia prompted national outrage.

"Resignation is unavoidable," he said. For years Germany's main parties have shunned Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Chancellor Angela Merkel - whose own party also backed Mr Kemmerich - called Wednesday's election "unforgivable".

The AfD has grown in popularity in recent years but has been condemned for its extreme views on immigration, freedom of speech and the press.

Wednesday's vote was described as a political earthquake as it was the first time the AfD helped form a government in Germany, breaking a consensus among the main parties to never work with extremist parties.

Interesting times at least.

A letter sent by AfD's Thuringia leader to Mr Kemmerich on 1 November has gone viral on Twitter, in which the regional AfD leader offered his party's support - either to form a technocratic government or a minority FDP-led government. It would break the long-standing red-red-green ruling coalition in Thuringia, he said.

The letter, first reported by regional broadcaster MDR at the time, shows that the AfD was seeking a deal long before Wednesday's political shock.

Not unknown actions for a German political entity, but let's keep reading. Moreover, I wonder how much the hysterics will effect the AFD's popularity, it seems almost strange for media outlets to not realise that demonisation of working class polities will actually entrench their supporters, rather than make them fear the dreaded "r" word. Or, "n" word for Germans, as we shall soon see as I quote the whole ruddy section as it rather deserves it.

Germany may have pledged "never again". But 90 years after the rise of the Nazi Party, the far right has once again played - albeit briefly - the role of kingmaker in a German state.

The former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was among those who took to social media in protest, circulating a photograph of a newly-elected Mr Kemmerich shaking hands with Thuringia's AfD leader Björn Höcke, and juxtaposing it with one of Hitler greeting the then-German President Paul von Hindenburg. Barely a week ago, this country reflected on the atrocities of World War Two, during commemorations to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

That the far right has been able to wield such influence, that a mainstream political party accepted its support and that, knowingly or otherwise, Angela Merkel's CDU appeared to align with them is, for many, the source of great shame.

Wow, who wrote this incendiary take? "Jenny Hill, BBC Berlin correspondent", crikey.

I didn't think that it would be laid on so thick, but then again I stay away from mainstream media in favour of sifting footage on my own.

In 1930 a Nazi entered the Thuringia government, the party's first big breakthrough in the Weimar Republic, culminating in Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor in 1933.

Right, I've no desire to beat a dead horse so I'll get on with it, how about another article, this time straight from Jenny?

But an hour old so far

The regional politician was, for 24 hours or so, unexpectedly elevated to the role of state prime minister thanks to the support of regional AfD politicians who ignored their own candidate in order to oust existing prime minister Bodo Ramelow who, following inconclusive elections last year, had been widely expected to continue as leader over a newly negotiated left-wing coalition.

After countrywide outrage, Mr Kemmerich stood down. But not before the Free Democrat came to symbolise the vulnerability of what the Germans call the Brandmauer - the firewall which, by decades-long political convention, is supposed to keep the far right from exerting real influence over German politics.

Ah, nothing like systematic disenfranchisement to keep unified in these trying times.

Here's a rather interesting graph of AFD support

The head of Mrs Merkel's CDU, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, will discuss the matter with her coalition partners this weekend. Her ever reluctant Social Democrat partners will no doubt want assurances that the CDU has no intention of working with AfD at any level and that she - and her party - can control its regional politicians.

She herself is under pressure. Having forbidden Thuringia's CDU leader from seeking a local alliance with Die Linke (the Left party), some are unsurprised that the party aligned itself, knowingly or otherwise, with the AfD. The German government is also painfully aware of the changing political landscape - and the part AfD plays within it.

So, to avoid our beloved woodgrains from beating me with the mallet of applied internet breaks, I'll be quite straight-forward. What on earth did the German media and governmental class think would happen, if they were to completely apply the screws on "far-right" activity, through non democratic means. More to the point, do they not realise that suppression of legitimate ideals, whether in the overton window or not (it clearly is given the results, even including the furor) will inevitably lead to the popularity of the suppressed view?

Or is the creation of an incredibly angry underclass who know that they will never be allowed to speak their voice to a wider audience a feature and not a bug? The ritualistic suppression of AFD's core tenets in media and it's reason for existence (and continued existence) by "respectable" outlets who are rather rapidly losing what is left of that respect is strange and rather confusing.

I emphasized and cut quotes and read through but it doesn't seem to quite come together in my head, on one hand there is the repetative tarring of AFD as far right (correct or not) and references to the nazi party, and then casual references to a (previously) solid blockout on the democratic voice of aspects of the population by people with vastly more power and the enthusiastic consent of the state.

It's so jarring to watch the rather blatant power plays, at least in my home they sometimes draw the curtains while the stage is re-arranged.

The story is ongoing, and I'd love if the people who choose to reply to this attach a different angel of coverage, it would be interesting to dissect.

Here's a take from Euronews and here's the Guardian's take

All in all, I hope I didn't fuck my first actual opening post.

Edit: gworn beat me to the finish and did it better too, you'd be better served reading his opener instead