Yeah, exactly.

So we've done Spain.

We've done Italy.

Now, what's the news from Germany?

Bad news, I hear.

Yes, it is bad news, and I'll get to that quickly.

And then I want to focus on one little bright spot, because I think the one little bright spot might be especially interesting to people who are interested in thinking about specifically

the relationship between trans politics and the left. So let's start with the bad news.

The bad news is that Germany just had an election. In first place, came a quite right-wing,

center-right, led by a very old, very conservative, both fiscally and socially man. In second place came

a far right party with many openly fascist personalities and elements with 20% of the vote,

which is a terrifyingly high percentage. The once proud German Social Democratic Party got 15%

of the vote, which is astonishingly, astonishingly

astonishingly terrible.

After having just governed for the past few years, probably foreshadowing of what will happen

in the UK, it was a similar loveless whim, and they did nothing in their time and power

to make anyone love them even more.

The Greens came in a little

bit below that. And then the big surprise of the election, because everyone came in basically

exactly where they'd been polling for the past six to eight months, was the left party,

DeLinka, which full disclosure, I remember. And DeLinka was able to triple its pre-election polling and go from

3% in the polls and 4.9% in the last election to just about 9% in this election.

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