Although it only won 25.7 percent in the federal election, the SPD has big plans: It wants to make this decade a social democratic one.
Everyone in the party agrees on this - just not on what that means.
The party youth sees it primarily as a programmatic departure.
Olaf Scholz and his confidants simply mean power, the chancellorship.
Conflicts are programmed, they became clear at the Juso meeting at the weekend.
It is very similar with the Greens and their party youth, who painfully voted in favor of the coalition agreement.
Paradoxically, the success of the SPD could lead to the top and bottom diverging from each other again, at least in places.
Because at the time of the grand coalition you had at least one common opponent who could be blamed for many things: the Union.
And now?
The Jusos are already ranting about the FDP, but Scholz does not want his coalition to be put down.
It is no longer so easy to find excuses in the “progress alliance”.
The youth of the party, however, are not falling into humility in the face of the election results; the cultural gap with the liberals is too deep for that.
Rather, their slogan is: We won, so we don't just want a piece of the cake, but the entire bakery.
Master confectioner Kevin Kühnert is already hard at work.