candidates these two very different kinds of interpretations they look a lot like the polarization that we're seeing in a lot of other places in the west germany has long prided itself on the kind of consensus tradition in its politics in fact the governing coalition is composed of two rival mainstream parties would you say that's breaking down and we're seeing the same kind of divisions opening up here as we have let's say in the u.s. absolutely i think that that kemp it's really is kind of a crucible of that i think it's less about the town of chemist's which is a really is a small city and it's more about what people project on to what happened there and you know if you if you go back and look at the way that this whole thing unfolded you know it started out as a murder by a couple of refugees apparently of a german citizen and that's what triggered all of this violence and i think the