About ConWatch: World history has had the pleasure of getting to know many Germanys in its long lifetime. There was the Holy Roman one, the failed Frankfurt one, the Prussian-dominated one that never really went away, the Great one that came included with a Kaiser, the one that was so efficient it got 1,000 years’ worth of stuff done in just 12; and the postwar Germany that was so nice it was made twice — a West version and an East version. When those two came together in an orgasm of liberal triumphalism in 1990, creating the cuddly Germany we know and love today as well as a catchy Spice Girls hit, it was supposed to make good on a promise to replace West Germany’s “temporary” Basic Law with a genuine, bona fide constitution for a united Germany.
It never did. Instead, the West German pseudo-constitution just became the West German pseudo-constitution. That’s why, until otherwise notified, The Bupkes will keep a vigilant eye out — and anticipatory light on — for an actual constitutio…
