I beg to disagree, having observed the German Greens close up for more than a decade, and this last election particularly.
Habeck and the realos lost because:
a) they imagined that there was constituency of conservative voters that would somehow be willing to change their lives fundamentally to achieve net zero. They can´t get their heads around the fact that fossil-capitalist interests will always try to sabotage Green projects in government. This is what happened with the Heating law. The logic of the illusory ´Merkel gap´ meant that the politically strategy was to form coalitions with the fossil-capital powned CDU/CSU. (Don´t ask me - I didn´t design the strategy).
b) In order to pursue the strategy above, they were willing to push through anti-migrant, anti-refugee, essentially symbolic legislation in their time in the last government, that aped the demands of the fascist AfD. This lost the German Greens the youth and humane vote.
c) Habeck replaced dependence on Russian piped gas with dependence of fracked US LNG. During his time as Industry Minister, if you include emissions at source, Germany´s total emissions probably increased.
d) The Greens policies ignored the economically disadvantaged in their legislation. The German Greens are essentially a party of and for the educated (upper) middle class. Not surprisingly the nihilist working class voted AfD, and those with hope remaining voted Die Linke.
I beg to disagree, having observed the German Greens close up for more than a decade, and this last election particularly.
Habeck and the realos lost because:
a) they imagined that there was constituency of conservative voters that would somehow be willing to change their lives fundamentally to achieve net zero. They can´t get their heads around the fact that fossil-capitalist interests will always try to sabotage Green projects in government. This is what happened with the Heating law. The logic of the illusory ´Merkel gap´ meant that the politically strategy was to form coalitions with the fossil-capital powned CDU/CSU. (Don´t ask me - I didn´t design the strategy).
b) In order to pursue the strategy above, they were willing to push through anti-migrant, anti-refugee, essentially symbolic legislation in their time in the last government, that aped the demands of the fascist AfD. This lost the German Greens the youth and humane vote.
c) Habeck replaced dependence on Russian piped gas with dependence of fracked US LNG. During his time as Industry Minister, if you include emissions at source, Germany´s total emissions probably increased.
d) The Greens policies ignored the economically disadvantaged in their legislation. The German Greens are essentially a party of and for the educated (upper) middle class. Not surprisingly the nihilist working class voted AfD, and those with hope remaining voted Die Linke.