eugyppius

One point to remember, is that it's basically always worked out for Germany before. There have been ups and downs, but since the Wirtschaftswunder we established a successful export economy and managed to be more or less functional. Wir schaffen das is not just something Merkel said about migration, it's a general boomeresque German attitude which tends to minimise potential crises and problems as things we can simply overcome. For the first time, Germany is encountering a lot of things it can't overcome. Wind and solar are never going to be our sole sources of power. We are not going to integrate infinity refugees. We have serious structural economic problems encouraged by our own dumb EU policies, and we have grave energy supply issues. These things are going to change German politics. The Brandmauer is going to come down. I don't know exactly when or how. I suspect there will still be a period of minimal change, foot-dragging, and so on, and then a moment of catastrophic failure. Much like how the Scholz government folded in the course of a week last November, nobody believed it would happen and then it did.