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On 21 September 2025, Ludwigshafen will elect a new mayor. Among the hopeful candidates was Joachim Paul, who is a member of the evil fascist Nazi Hitler party known as Alternative für Deutschland. His candidacy represented a grave threat to democracy, because if Paul were permitted to run, it would be possible to vote for him, and were enough people to vote for him, the good citizens of Ludwigshafen would find themselves in 1933 all over again.

Understandably terrified about this eventuality, the sitting mayor of Ludwigshafen, Jutta Steinruck (a former Social Democrat) wrote an email on 18 July to the state Interior Ministry of her concern that “Paul is not loyal to the constitution.” The Interior Ministry, under the control of Michael Ebling (SPD), responded with an eleven-page letter on 29 July, detailing various evidence that domestic spies in the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution had compiled on Paul. Exactly a week later, the Ludwigshafen election committee, which is chaired by Steinruck herself, formally excluded Paul from the election on the basis of his anti-constitutional tendencies. In this way, Steinruck and her collaborators succeeded in suspending their democracy for the purposes of safeguarding their democracy against the political opposition.

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