mz, I admire your trust in the system, but I cannot share it. If it was working, Trump would be in prison now and not on his way into the white house.

deleted my comment just to specify: yeah new elections in Germany., I mean. I mean, it's ridiculous to rule with a minority government. What's even the approval at this point? Sub 10%?

It is much easier for this type of system to be abused by dictator wannabies like Trump. In a way, the very Byzantine structure of the power makes efficient government work harder in US

Re-election in Germany? I'm even more afraid of those. Nazis will likely win a huge share and we'll move from a moderately progressive government to a conservative right one. It's so fucking depressing.

In a parlimanitarian system, like most of the Western world, the executive branch is an offshoot of the legislative branch, and as such, any significant disagreement between the two results in the dissolution of the government.

And lets not kid ourselves. The whole immunity ruling is an abuse of power. And Trump just effectively evaded prosecution of crimes he's already convicted of. Tell me that's not abuse of power.

But it's not domestic politics we're worried about. At least that's not the major part of it. Germany is a republic, too. We're not too different, there. But we also understand the issues of a federal system. And its limitations.