The designated Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) does not make it easy for himself on the way to the government office.
First he accuses the critics of the unnecessarily amended Infection Protection Act in the Bundestag for not behaving like upright democrats and spreading “fake news”.
Now he is publicly reprimanding a prime minister (“Pull yourself by the belt!”) For first putting the money he receives from the federal government into the vaccination centers before attempting to tackle the incitement in the messenger service Telegram.
It was not just one FDP politician who spoke who has little sense of how upright democrats have to defend themselves against the abysses of these networks.
An opposition politician also spoke who apparently has problems arriving in the federal government without this change getting to his head.
The Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, so presumptuous by Buschmann, is currently reaching the limits of his authority.
It was certainly not appropriate of him to comment on the irregular "walks" of lateral thinkers in his country by pointing out that the police couldn't be everywhere.
But he definitely deserves support, especially from the future Federal Minister of Justice, when it comes to threats and hate speech from the net.
The interior ministers of the federal states have continued to do this and will hopefully not give up.
After all, it is now about a phenomenon that helps to bring individual countries to the brink of ungovernability.