In her speech to the Federal Assembly, the President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, did well to recall that we Germans have always been able to overcome what divided us in the past.
Because whether this will also succeed in the near future is nothing more than a hope for the time being.
In Dresden, meanwhile, right-wing extremists once again formed a creepy backdrop, while their barbaric destruction on February 13, 1945 was commemorated in the city.
And as on many weekends now, citizens came together all over Germany this weekend to express their anger at the corona measures, which was mixed with more and more hatred of the state, on the street.
It is quite possible that this feeling will dissipate after the announced easing of restrictions.
But the citizens will stay – as will the politicians.
That doesn't bode well.
Beyond the increasingly open right-wing extremist AfD, there is still no parliamentary resonance space in which to represent the emotional and cognitive dissonances that a communicatively erratic pandemic policy creates.
In any case, the simple “counter-right” rhetoric of the political mainstream will not overcome what separates us, but will only demonize it further.