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Sometimes Angela Merkel is disarmingly open: “We are now trying to build the bridges, but we also don't know exactly where we are going to build them.
So, we don't see the bank either. ”With these words, she described the current Corona situation in Germany.
However, these words apply just as well to Merkel's party.
Although the CDU knows where it is going under its new chairman Armin Laschet, namely back to the Chancellery, it currently does not know how to build the bridge there.
You don't even know who is supposed to be the bridge builder, Laschet or Markus Söder?
According to the first projections of the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, there is currently no state in sight for the CDU, not even a state.
There the Green incumbent Winfried Kretschmann has finally outclassed his previous Christian Democratic junior partner.
As things stand, Kretschmann can form a government without the CDU.
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In both Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, a historic defeat is looming for the Christian Democrats.
Of course, state elections are not yet a federal election.
And Armin Laschet has only been chairman of the CDU for a few weeks.
You can comfort yourself with the fact that the losses in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg have little to do with his party leadership, as some Christian Democrats are now doing.
On the other hand: Laschet did not exude a spirit of optimism either.
At first it was perhaps not in great demand, because then the public would have become too aware that the CDU will soon be a CDU without Merkel.
It was Merkel's reputation as crisis chancellor that catapulted the party to the top in the polls.
But then came the vaccination disaster and the test fiasco.
The federal government wasted and is still wasting the chance to use these funds to quickly create alternatives to a life in lockdown.
And suddenly the question arises whether the CDU, whose middle names are “ruling party” and “Chancellor's election association”, is really capable of governing?
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The dwindling trust has now turned into vanishing trust after it became clear that members of the CDU and CSU were using the corona crisis for their own financial profit.
Cynics would be lucky that because of the virus, the majority of citizens cast their votes by postal vote, before the extent of these machinations became known.
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But if the disastrous results of the Christian Democrats have little to do with the current scandals, then the party has a much bigger problem than the greed of some unscrupulous MPs.
The CDU has reached the point where its present is squashed between past and future: What have you actually achieved in 16 years of government, and what do you want and, above all, can you achieve in the next few years?
Armin Laschet has to give an answer to these questions about the past and the future.
And soon.
Because the fact that two rather pale CDU top candidates have lost to strong incumbents in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate cannot hide the fact that the CDU needs a bridge builder.
One who knows where the shore is.