Volk, Volksgemeinschaft, AfD

We are the people. The others are not. The historian Michael Wildt on the ambivalences and abysses of the political concept of the people. "We are the people!" It's a powerful and demanding phrase, especially in a democracy where the people rule. "All state power emanates from the people" is written in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. But: Who are the people? The citizens entitled to vote? The demonstrators against the dictatorship in Leipzig in October 1989? The orange masses on the Maidan in Kiev, who successfully forced the election of the new president in 2013/14? In the long history of the people, there has always been a dispute about who belonged to them and who did not. Women, for example, did not receive the right to vote in most states until the 20th century. And what happens, as Sebastian Haffner asked in 1933, if the people do not accept democracy ni.