Vice President JD Vance warned European leaders in Munich earlier this month that their efforts to silence dissent over policies that have produced record-high levels of foreign-born, culturally recalcitrant migrants were undermining their security. Now, with this deep problem uppermost in their minds, German voters have defeated the center-left Social Democratic Party and turned to the center-right Christian Democrats, while the Alternative for Germany, which is further to the right, nearly doubled its support.

According to exit polls, more German voters identified “immigration” as their nation’s “most pressing problem” than any other issue. Concerns about migrants beat out the economy by 3 points, 37%-34%, while crushing worries about “climate change,” 13%, and “inflation,” 7%. More than 82% of eligible Germans voted last weekend, making this year’s turnout the highest in more than 40 years.