Yesterday's election results in Saxony-Anhalt are bad news for Czechs, regardless of whether they're fans or detractors of AfD. Such a lopsided victory by AfD against the two parties of the national coalition, CDU and SPD, shows the extent to which Germany is falling apart. How the mainstream parties now react to the intruders from AfD will have a tremendous impact on neighboring countries. Czech-German relations have gone through two main phases since 1989. There was initially a powerful, pervasive feeling that Germany represented the ultimate standard for economic success, institutional order and democracy. This started to change with Wir schaffen das, the Green Deal and deindustrialization, causing some Czech economists and businesspeople to warn against excessive dependence on German industry. The third phase is almost the complete antithesis of the first. The default assumption should now be that nothing good comes out of Germany. If this thesis is ever proven wrong, it will be a pleasant surprise.