Great read. There is something rather odd about how quick people are to casually valorise politicians with (at best) mixed legacies. Always reminds me of the Story of the Zen Farmer/“We’ll see”.
Merkel left office five years ago to huge acclaim. Why? She ripped off Nato, cultivated gas dependency on Putin, cosied up to China and opened the door to a million migrants in 2015 alone. She, not the populist right, was the true extremist of our age