Overview
- He portrays the SPD as inward-looking and off course, arguing the party prioritizes conference choreography over direct engagement with voters.
- He warns against trying to assemble majorities from "legitimate minority interests" such as cannabis policy, naming law, sex determination and identity politics, which he says are not decisive for most voters.
- He calls for consolidating hundreds of social benefits into standardized lump sums processed on a nationwide digital platform.
- He presses for broad state modernization through digitalization, bureaucracy reduction, and infrastructure and education upgrades, praising Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger as a strong addition to the cabinet.
- He faults the government's lack of conflict capacity, urges the Union–SPD coalition under Chancellor Friedrich Merz to deliver to avoid a democracy trust problem, and condemns the newly passed pension package as materially, financially and procedurally wrong.