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Olaf Scholz took the chance he didn't have.
Unlike all the other SPD candidates for Chancellor in recent decades, he never once reached into the box of social-democratic pathos - and yet proved that he has a strong will to shape politics.
That as Chancellor he wants to be better and more decisive than Angela Merkel.
That he wants to take on great things.
An Olaf Scholz spoke here that was never known before.
In doing so, he achieved a double rhetorical feat. In contrast to other Social Democrats, he has explicitly and proudly emphasized: “Yes, we co-governed.” At the same time, however, he has dumped all the progress backlog that he certified in the country with the Union, in a way that sounded entirely credible. At the same time, in his speech, he decidedly distanced himself from the social democratic community for which the two sad chairmen of the SPD stand.
He did not contradict them, and even adopted some of their left-wing traditional ideas, such as the sweeping departure from the black zero and the call for even more state interventionism.
However, he succeeded in presenting all of this in such a way that it suited the right-wing social democratic world of Olaf Scholz.
He tried to advertise a Germany that “plans something” that loves success.
And it sounded believable when he said: "I'm on the side of normal people."
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Angela Merkel has never been enthusiastic.
But often reassured.
Olaf Scholz also calms down.
In his application speech, however, he also distanced himself from Merkel's policy of one-thing-arises-from-the-other.
If Scholz sticks to this course and is not disavowed by the party like candidates before him, it is quite conceivable that his party will achieve 20 percent or even more in the federal election.
Everyone felt: the man wants what he says.
And he - once called Scholzomat - will execute it.
The dilemma remains, however, that Scholz alone stands for this citizen-bound determination.
He is a lone fighter.
It is probably true what he says quite naturally: he can be chancellor.
The party congress harmony cannot hide the fact that once again an SPD candidate for chancellor may have many citizens behind him, but not his backward-looking party.