“…Look, I know I owe you varied topics, and I promise to deliver on that soon. I’m working on a longer piece about the decay of Green environmentalism, and I also want to write about the strange politics of Germany as an expression of our peculiarly uniform middle-class society. But, for the moment, I just can’t tear my eyes away from the insanity that is attending our elections. The AfD is holding strong above 20% and the CDU is having trouble breaking free of 30%. The writing is on the wall: whatever Government comes out of this is going to be a godforsaken mess. Our rulers knows this too, and they are losing their minds. The collective hysteria and repressive zeal is exceeding last year’s unprecedented panic about ThE RiGHt, which is really saying something.”
