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Saturday, September 26, 2020
By Frauke Niemeyer
“Söder, Merkel’s disgusting bootlicker,” the Bavarian prime minister quoted in his speech at the party conference from threatening emails against him. The tone is increasingly harsh, he wants to show Söder, and he announces that the Reich war flag will be banned in Bavaria.
Markus Söder is not easy to deviate, but when the prime minister of the CSU of Bavaria has cited the threatening emails against him and wants to move on to the subject of the economy, he suddenly feels that it is not possible. “Sorry,” Söder says to the camera, “I have to take a deep breath” and pours himself something to drink from the cup he’s waiting for. “Because honestly it’s a pretty tough story,” says Söder, which moves him and they’re not all that stable.
Every viewer who follows Söder’s party conference speech on the live internet broadcast on Saturday afternoon can assess how stable it should be. “Now it’s over. Hang this megalomaniac psychopath in the tree next door as quickly as possible,” Söder quotes a threatening message with reading glasses and: “You should gas your stinking Jewish pig.”
For the Bavarian head of state, hate speech is an expression of increasingly absurd conspiracy theories rampant around the world about the crown pandemic. “Of course everyone has the right to be totally skeptical, and there is also the freedom to speak nonsense,” says Söder. But you can feel people “starting to radicalize. The tone becomes more aggressive, the theses a little more confused.”
“Despite the hostility, we remain strong”
He wondered for a long time if he would read it aloud “to show everyone what was on the table.” With dating, Söder wants to show “that there is a greater danger than you think.” It has even more visual material: “Söder, you disgusting boot-licking Merkel, for you I only feel contempt and hatred” is another example, such as: “I will shoot you.” That is “quite cheeky, even if you read it personally,” he closes his collection of quotes and explains, “anyway or precisely because of that” you have to weigh good arguments, you have to follow better arguments.
“Despite this hostility, we hold the line, we remain strong and stable,” is Söder’s conclusion. In his speech, he “declared war” on conspiracy theorists, anti-democratic enemies and neo-Nazis and announced that the Reich’s war flag would be banned in the Free State. The black, white and red flag recently flew frequently during protests against the crown measures. “With such a flag you show your clear rejection and distance from our democracy,” says Söder.
The head of the CSU criticizes the “open and covert” neo-Nazis who attacked democracy under the pretext of fighting Corona. You are convinced that you are acting to the best of your knowledge and belief. “Our reference point and mine is reason rather than conspiracy.”
