{"id":68671,"date":"2024-06-18T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68671"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:32:11","slug":"after-months-of-masturbatory-freaking-out-about-the-right-the-german-government-inches-towards-collapse-as-the-social-democrats-realise-theyre-wildly-unpopular-and-have-neither-money-nor-answe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68671","title":{"rendered":"After months of masturbatory freaking out about “the right,” the German government inches towards collapse, as the social democrats realise they’re wildly unpopular and have neither money nor answers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After months of masturbatory freaking out about “the right,” the German government inches towards collapse, as the social democrats realise they’re wildly unpopular and have neither money nor answers<\/a><\/h3>\n

The S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung reports on growing discontent with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the ranks of his own party.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since January, German political elites have waged an unceasing \u201cfight against the right.\u201d For weeks at a time, the establishment press would report on little else. We have had\u00a0freakouts about secret right-wing immigrant deportation plans<\/a>, we have had\u00a0freakouts<\/a>\u00a0right-wing political violence<\/a>, we have had\u00a0freakouts about right-wing fifth-columnists<\/a>, we have had\u00a0freakouts about televised political debates<\/a>\u00a0and we have had\u00a0freakouts about right-wing song lyrics<\/a>. We have had every last kind of freakout you could imagine about the right, all of it promoted by an absolutely deranged media establishment eager to revive pandemic-era hysteria. Then, after all of that screeching and scratching and crying and caterwauling,\u00a0we had the EU parliamentary elections<\/a>, and just like that \u2013 as if someone had simply flipped a switch \u2013 we have stopped freaking out about the right.<\/p>\n

As campaign tactics go, the \u201cfight against the right\u201d didn\u2019t work as intended. The point of it, I guess, was to blackmail voters into supporting the social democrats, the Greens and the liberals, by warning them that the alternative was fascism. Nobody bought that, and all three government parties got hammered in the European elections.\u00a0The latest poll pegs their combined support at 32%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the politicians of these parties are awakening with a pounding post-election hangover, and realising they\u2019ve made a huge mistake. As the\u00a0S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em>\u00a0reports, \u201cit is dawning on the SPD that they have underestimated the importance of migration and domestic security as political issues<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After months of masturbatory freaking out about “the right,” the German government inches towards collapse, as the social democrats realise they’re wildly unpopular and have neither money nor answers The S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung reports on growing discontent with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the ranks of his own party. Since January, German political elites have waged an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,253,33189,359],"class_list":["post-68671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collapse","tag-elections","tag-eugyppius","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68672,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68671\/revisions\/68672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}