IT’S NOT JUST THE WORLD CUP: The Decline of Germany: Football humiliation isn’t the only kind. “The refugee crisis of 2015-2016 ‘transformed’ politics within the country, according to Hans Kundnani, a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, who told Newsweek that the AfD’s continued rise points to ‘massive backlash against non-white immigration.'”