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Federico Gambarini / Reuters Eric Gujer is editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. What hasn’t been said about Markus Söder this week? Critics have accused him of employing Donald Trump-esque political tactics, despising institutions and relying on a self-defined party base instead of bowing to elected committees. Some even claimed the foundations of liberal democracy itself were crumbling under the power-hungry Christian Social Union (CSU) leader’s assault. After all, he denounced party democracy as the opaque result of backroom wheeling and dealing. And then Söder backed down as quickly as he had moved to attack. After a week of the soft-seeming Laschet standing surprisingly firm, the blue and white Bavarian revolution was called off. The whole thing fizzled out like a beer tent brawl. When the dust settled, the political system in Germany still stood firmly on its foundations. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and CSU were bruised, but in the end everyone played

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