SPD: A historical turning point or the beginning of the end?

The current crisis surrounding Chancellor Olaf Scholz is merely the tip of the iceberg. At its core, this is a more comprehensive issue affecting the entire SPD. If the Social Democrats do not manage to decisively correct their course in the near future, they face a fate similar to that of the Socialists in France. The latter suffered a dramatic loss of votes, plunging them into the single digits and even forcing them to sell their party headquarters. Such a scenario would be an enormous humiliation for the storied SPD, one that its leadership must strive to prevent at all costs.