Hooking things up with Olaf Scholz – not an easy idea.
Even if it is a request from the Federal Chancellor himself.
In his public image, he lacks both the joviality and the ability required here to swear the people into hard times in the crisis.
The emphasis on coolness and smoothness, from which everything rolls off, is not wrong per se.
But it seems more than formalistic when Scholz almost completely excludes a speed limit, against which there are good reasons, on the grounds that it is not in the coalition agreement.
But there is nothing about the Ukraine war and Unterhaken.
The chancellor must lead and convince, depending on the situation, even in a coalition that is not simple.
This is not possible, either externally or internally, as is appropriate for the situation and this country.
As if that weren't enough, the Chancellery tries to give the impression that everything is going well, but nobody sees it. And the media simply wasn't doing its job.
However, it is advisable to start with yourself when complaining about your own external image.
Almost everyone understands that Germany, like all Western powers, does not want to intervene directly in the Ukraine war.
But the communication about what Germany wants and can deliver and (not) delivered was as disastrous as the most embarrassing avoidance of the word "win" when it comes to this war of conquest with the will to destroy.
No, we don't want to dictate anything to Ukraine, but any fussing about this issue acts as a covert support for the aggressor, with whom one obviously does not want to spoil things.
With a view to war, armaments, inflation, energy shortages, climate change and social cohesion, statements that are as clear as they are empathetic are needed.
Robert Habeck does it better.
Of course, his responsibility is limited.
Scholz can leave Habeck with shower tips.
But the Federal Chancellor must fill with life the “turning point” that he rightly proclaimed.