WO IST DER BIER HALL?

Okay, now I know things are getting crazy.

A German right-wing group that follows QAnon was plotting to overthrow the German federal government and establish a reactionary Teutonic monarchy in the style of the Hohenzollern empire that ruled Germany from 1871 to 1918.  They planned to make as their new king Prince Heinrich von Reuss of Köstritz, who would have absolute power, and to restore Germany's former glory.  They were plotting to storm the German Bundestag (parliament) and stage a coup in a repeat of what happened in Washington on January 6, 2021.

This group, the The Reichsbürger group (or "Citizens of the Reich") do not recognize the democratically elected German government as legitimate, having been formed as a "vassal state" of the Western powers, and they do not recognized the government in Berlin to collect taxes or enforce laws.  The Reichsbürger movement has its own leadership follows its own rules, and issues its own passports. 

Despite long vacations, the Inter-City Express rail service, paid maternity leave, and a whole bunch of other amenities Germans take for granted and Americans lack, many Germans are dissatisfied with how their country is doing now and also dissatisfied with the current coalition government under Olaf Scholz.  A sense of malaise has taken hold in Germany now.  It means that the U.S. is not unique in fending off authoritarian right-wing populism.  The root causes of this form of populism are more cultural than economic; such people are looking back to a mythical past that they felt was a greater and better time for their homelands.  And they're hell-bent on getting back something they never had.

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.