Yeah this is sadly based mostly off of the fact that the world is not good right now. There's a lot of larger-than-life issues, and none where a single person can, without impacting their personal quality of life significantly, make a dent in. And probably not even then.
This makes a lot of desperate, confused and fearful people very easy targets for a party such as the AfD telling them it's all just lies, there is no climate change, there is no pandemic, no nothing, and grab easy voters that way so they can push their actual agend, being nazis and getting themselves rich.
(Because as always they keep lying about how they're fighting for the common folk, but if you look at what their politicians actually vote, it's always empowered rich, removing restrictions, easing tax theft, and putting more financial strain on the common workers)