The dangers of Germany's new left populism
Sahra Wagenknecht, co-chair of the parliamentary fraction of the German left-wing Die Linke party, has announced the launch-date and name for a new extra-parliamentary “broad movement”. It will be launched on 4 September, and it will be called #StandUp. On one level #StandUp — targeted at members of Die Linke, the SPD (German Labour Party), the Greens and those not members of any party — is a response to last year’s general election results. The CDU (German Conservative Party) and the CSU (regional Conservative Party, in Bavaria) saw their vote fall by eight percent but still won the highest...