http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20201010-113356-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-beautiful-of-all/ Mirror Mirror on the Wall – Who is the Most Beautiful of All? Weiler, Joseph H.H. eng 2020-10-10 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Hegemony Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 I have been politically aware for around, sigh, five decades. And with unerring regularity once every ten years or so, we have been treated to a kind of decennial Oktoberfest of German public hand-wringing. Very public – group therapy writ large. Sometimes it comes with the label of ‘Legitimacy Crisis’. Oftentimes it is a variation on the theme of ‘Are We Back to Weimer Times – and You Know What Followed That!’ It has all the hall marks of a ritual.