There’s no denyin’ the German ruling coalition is still in denial. And they are going to hang onto that rotting piece of timber as long as they possibly can, desperately trying to stay afloat and in power.
On Monday, I caught y’all up on the rude shock the elites of the Olaf Scholz government received over the weekend when the projected populist surge in regional elections materialized before their eyes. In a stunning blow to “democracy,” Germans exercised their democratic right to vote in record numbers. The states of Saxony and Thuringia elected the majority hard-right party, AfD (Alles fur Deutschland), in solid second place in one whilst handing an outright victory to them in the other.
…They scored handsome advances, coming in second in Saxony and taking the prize in Thuringia.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition was punished in two regional elections in eastern…