The car toll is the best example of a political style that pushes through grandiose campaign promises for its own clientele at the expense of the general public.
In Bavaria, people had long been annoyed about the tolls from their Austrian neighbors.
In 2018, the CSU seemed about time to counteract this in Germany.
The order for the billion-dollar controversial toll project ended up with her Federal Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer.
Things went so horribly wrong that Maut Scheuer, even now as a member of the German Bundestag, is an uncomfortable task.
The public prosecutor's office is now investigating on suspicion of making false statements against him.
To be fair: Scheuer denies having lied, and these investigations are only a sideshow of the dispute about the toll that went wrong.
There's a good chance they'll ship.
The damages in the millions, which the German taxpayer will probably have to shoulder, will be much more unpleasant.
Scheuer will no longer have to answer for this.
The CSU should still learn from it.