

Eh, the AfD has always, and still does, represent some extreme positions that the CDU is still far away from. Remember that the AfD was founded as an anti-EU party, a position they still hold. The CDU has only really copied the AfD when it comes to migration. Otherwise they are still very different.
Even the Merz CDU is left wing compared to US democrats. Remember all the social programs we have, for example public healthcare.
I was working with Argon2 hashes, so it was the first thing to come to mind.