We are 100 days into Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship, and Germany has achieved something truly remarkable: a coalition government so perfectly dysfunctional that it appears to have been designed by the AfD’s campaign strategists. The signs of trouble emerged from the very beginning. Merz, who could barely contain his eagerness to finally assume the chancellorship, stumbled at the first hurdle on 6 May when he failed to secure the necessary majority in the first Bundestag vote, only managing to cross the line later that day. Some observers already spoke of a botched start and they were not wrong.

What we are witnessing is not mere political incompetence. It is a masterclass in how to gift-wrap a democracy for populists while maintaining the earnest conviction that one is defending it

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