Enthusiasm for red-brown Wagenknecht
The German politician Sahra Wagenknecht has surprised no-one by announcing a new party. For the time being she has modestly given it the name “Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht — for Reason and Justice”. Wagenknecht has tried this before: in 2018 she formed Stand Up, an outfit based upon vague anti-globalism, denunciations of finance capital and nostalgia for both East German Stalinism and West Germany’s 1950s social market economy, with support for small and medium businesses. Wagenknecht and her partner the former SPD leader Oskar Lafontaine were by then well known for their hostility to...