This has been going on for a long time. But, to be honest, there are markedly different groups of people protesting in the east and the west of Germany. Both d

This has been going on for a long time. But, to be honest, there are markedly different groups of people protesting in the east and the west of Germany. Both distrust towards government and right-wing ideology have been much stronger in the east, and have thus dominated large-scale public protests even before corona. In the west, there is a small amount of right-wing supporters, but they are joined by newly converted government skeptics and fringe spiritual groups.