There are still people who cling to him, somehow anyway. In the background. Because Boris Palmer is not only the enfant terrible of German politics, but also different. A man with two faces, as they like to say in such cases, a Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. a phenomenon. And now a case for therapy.
As he himself knows and, more importantly, says. Public. Because he’s shaken. Frightened about himself. And this time probably in such a way that it goes deep. That he is now seeking help, professionally, seriously. Where two grandees of the Greens, who he always thought would be by his side, have turned away from him: Rezzo hose and Winfried Kretschmann.
That hurts. Even him, who is said to not have that feeling. But that the two break the baton over him, renounce their loyalty, above all “Rezzo”, his lawyer even against the Greens, his adviser in almost every situation – that’s what Boris Palmer achieved. Internally. Shake him up, shook him up.
Boris Palmer is shocked at himself
Maybe what you hear is really true, that he’s devastated. There’s the man who says things that make you think he’s not in the least bit of control of his thoughts tumbling and pouring out of him.
And then there is someone who formulates political solutions at breakneck speed, presents them, and asserts that there is a way. His very own style. That’s why the people of Tübingen chose him three times: because of his achievements.
The gifted one. He has always been, at school and at university. As a politician, Palmer can deal with everyday life and crises, whether it’s a pandemic or a refugee. Tübingen, the city, is doing well. Let’s put it this way: he gets his politics well.
how does he say His serious intentions to ensure that something like this is not allowed to happen again – he means such failures that can be called racist and anti-Semitic – have not been successful. You could say so.
And what’s more: that he will take professional help during a break and try to work through his part in these increasingly destructive entanglements – that’s what he says. It speaks for itself. Also for him?
He doesn’t want to be completely without everyone
.He has to do it for himself, yes, but also for the people if he doesn’t want to lose everyone. Like the greens. And he doesn’t want to be completely without everyone he has disappointed, without his family, Rezzo, “Kretsch”. He wants her back. You can hear that in every sentence.
He wants to apologize, he says, which also means he wants to get rid of what keeps making him guilty of arrogance, hubris and outrages.
And how exactly? Boris Palmer is looking for help, literally. This can not be done overnight. He doesn’t yet know exactly how the break will be. He does not want to comment on this, not even once, says the SWR, he does not see himself in a position to do so at the moment.
“The mention of the Star of David was false and totally inappropriate”
Of course he wants to explain himself differently, excuse me. He, a Nazi? That, too, shook him: that no one was able to understand what stirred up in him. Didn’t his father demonstrate against injustice with the Jewish star on his chest?
His father, the “Rebel vom Remstal”, from whom he seems to have got this strange gene. The father, fruit farmer Helmut, who stood in more than 250 mayoral elections in Baden-Württemberg as a non-party candidate. Who messed with everyone when it seemed important to him.
Except that he wasn’t mayor like his son. Who should never have spoken like that. “The mention of the Jewish star was false and totally inappropriate,” says Palmer.
Does he really know? How often has he subsequently tried to separate himself from what he has done. But now he has to prove that he is as sorry as he says. yourself and everyone else. Otherwise there will be no one left to hold on to him. No more voters either.
