In her taz column, Gilda Sahebi argues the Democrats' midterm wins — James Talarico's "Love your neighbor" campaign in Texas, Jon Ossoff's Senate defense in Georgia, Abdul El-Sayed's win in Michigan — came from fighting polarization rather than it, a lesson she says German politicians miss even as they celebrate the result. She notes that figures like Karin Prien, Karl Lauterbach and Friedrich Merz, who cheer the Democrats, warn against a Left Party coalition in Berlin as "left radicals" not capable of governing, and calls polarization the instrument of authoritarians.