Every year, RTL (commercial TV in Germany) has a special 3-hour type show called "People, Pictures, and Emotions". If you were out of Germany for the past 12 months....it rounds up all the big stories.
Normally (probably for 15 years), Gunther Jauch would host the show. Jauch, I would suggest is trusted by 90-percent off the nation, and clearly a 'trusted' source for logic and reason.
He's also up at a retirement age, and this year to be replaced.
The new guy? Curiously.....Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Who is the guy?
At some point around 2010, Guttenberg was the premier guy figured to push Merkle out and be the CDU-CSU candidate for Chancellor. Then.....some organization stepped in and did analysis over his thesis paper for his degree. Plagiarism was the charge.....which stuck.
Guttenberg eventually resigned from politics, and left Germany....ending up as a analyst for a US think-tank.
Rehibition? Well....some people would say he's paid his price and is simply walking back into Germany.
On logic and brain-power.....one to ten? I'd give the guy an eleven. He does his homework, and is ready for any debate. Presently in Germany, for debate skills....I'd say in the final five...Guttenberg is in the group. Any journalist thinking they can 'best' him? Don't count on it.
How this might play out? There's not another national election until 2025. I could see him getting a good bit of air-time via RTL for 2023 and 2024. Maybe he comes back in the spring of 2025, to voice his situation as a candidate.
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