Overview

• The Sunday ARD episode, titled "Trump spaltet die USA – welchen Schaden nimmt die Demokratie?", featured Jens Spahn with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook and Kerstin Kohlenberg.
• Spahn said MAGA now uses tools once associated with the left such as cancel culture and hate speech, declined to label Jimmy Kimmel’s removal as "censorship," and cautioned against pulling shows or hosts in Germany.
• Kohlenberg and Clüver Ashbrook described an acute democratic danger in the U.S., citing institutional erosion, a "new persecution dynamic," and tensions heightened after activist Charlie Kirk’s killing.
• On domestic policy, Spahn argued wealth distribution in Germany lacks fairness, floated early‑start pension and easier homeownership to boost assets, and said inheritance‑tax changes must await a Constitutional Court ruling.
• Looking to Thursday’s Bundestag vote, he voiced confidence three Federal Constitutional Court judges will be elected, praising Union candidate Sigrid Emmenegger as "very, very good," with the two‑thirds threshold still required.