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It is amusing in a depressing sort of way to watch the current about-turn of the German political Right regarding Sahra Wagenknecht. Wagenknecht was a well-known politician of Die Linke, the Leftist uniparty — kind of post-reunification Germany’s version of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). But in recent years she made herself rather unpopular with her comrades, to the point of being threatened with being kicked out of her own party. In 2021 Wagenknecht published a book titled Die Selbstgerechten (The Self-Righteous Ones), her criticism of the modern Left’s betrayal of its former ideals. (more…)