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and the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today are Ines Schfurtner and Adrian Dab. We talked about the

German election results and the partial revival of the SPD, which had once seemed to be in the

same kind of electoral death spiral as the French socialist, but which is now poised to lead the next

German government. We also talked about the possible permutations of governing correlations and the unusual extent of the Red Scare tactics deployed by the CDU and the other parties of the right against Delinca and the SPD.

Finally, we chatted about the legacy of Angela Merkel and why Germany's longest-serving Chancellor since Helmut Kohl is so admired by liberals abroad and whether her reputation for competence and fairness is entirely warranted.

Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon,

and also by Verso Books, who have lots of excellent titles

that may be of interest to PTO listeners.

One that you might like to check out is Falling Down,

the Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain by Phil Burton Cartlidge.

Since the era of Thatcherism, the Tories have struggled to find a popular vision for the United Kingdom.

At the same time, their members have become increasingly old and their values have not been adopted by younger voters.

Falling Down, a new book by Phil Burton Cartlidge offers an explanation for how the Tory party

came to this position and what might lie ahead. The book is out now from Verso Books.

And now to today's interview. Ines Scherner is an author, political analyst and managing editor

at Jacobin, Germany, and she lives in Berlin.

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