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“Do Not Be Afraid!” – Armin Willingmann’s Fear Show and the SPD’s Short Memory9.3 percent. That is all the SPD managed to scrape together under its top candidate Armin Willingmann in the state election – and yet the minister stands in front of the cameras warning the republic about “exclusion” by the AfD. 
Do Not Be Afraid! – Says the Man Whose Party Banned the Unvaccinated from Public LifeArmin Willingmann (SPD), still Minister of Science and a freshly failed top candidate with a meager 9.3 percent, is presenting himself after the AfD’s success as the patron saint of the fearful. In the video and Facebook post of September 8, 2026, he warns of the AfD’s “exclusion” of science, culture, churches, and people with special needs – and solemnly declares: “Do not be afraid! We will fight with you, we will defend you!”How touching. The man who, during the “wonderful Corona years,” was part of a government that systematically divided and excluded people and distributed fundamental rights according to vaccination status is now preaching solidarity. An autopsy of this piece of sanctimonious kitsch. The 9.3-Percent Loser’s Sermon: Exclusion Everywhere You Look – Except in His Own RecordWillingmann sees “legitimate concerns.” The AfD’s government program supposedly stands for the exclusion of science, culture, churches, and people with special needs. “Cultural alienation,” “patriotic declarations,” “interference with academic freedom,” and a “war on the churches” are allegedly looming. The AfD is “designed to divide.”Let us take a closer look. The AfD’s 2026 program for Saxony-Anhalt (“The State First”) does indeed seek to end school inclusion as a “failed experiment” and strengthen special schools. It sharply criticizes the major “churches funded by church tax” (accusing them of “rainbow ideology”), wants to abolish state payments to the churches and end the state collection of church taxes (the state’s collection service for the churches) – while at the same time promoting free churches and “authentic Christianity.” In science, it seeks to use target agreements to push back gender and postcolonial studies and instead promote “critical Islamic studies” or climate-impact research. Culture is to be assessed more strongly according to “German identity formation.” This is an alternative program to the policies pursued so far. Willingmann turns this into an apocalyptic threat and offers himself up as the savior. In doing so, however, he systematically ignores what his own party and the state government supported by the SPD actually practiced during the Corona years: the largest state-organized campaign of exclusion in decades. Remembering Corona: When the SPD Government Turned the Unvaccinated into Second-Class CitizensWhere was Willingmann’s “Do not be afraid!” rhetoric in 2021/2022? Saxony-Anhalt – like almost all German states – implemented 2G and 3G rules: access to culture, restaurants, sports, leisure activities, and parts of the retail sector was restricted to vaccinated and recovered people. The unvaccinated were largely excluded from social life. The sector-specific vaccination mandate for care and healthcare pushed unvaccinated people out of their professions. Mask mandates applied across the board, often even inside polling stations. Anyone not wearing a mask (without a medical certificate) could even be removed from polling stations.Concrete personal statements by Willingmann in which he verbally tears apart the unvaccinated or cheers on compulsory vaccination are admittedly rare – he was Minister of Science, not Minister of Health (that was Petra Grimm-Benne, SPD). But he was part of the government that supported and adopted these regulations. When the mask mandate on public transport ended in 2022, the SPD would, according to Willingmann himself, have preferred to keep it in place for longer. The party that now warns against division actively divided society into vaccinated and unvaccinated people, massively restricted the social contacts of the unvaccinated, and destroyed people’s livelihoods. “We will defend you” – back then, that only applied to the right side of the vaccination card. The density of fake news and disinformation in Willingmann’s current speech is high: He broadly accuses the AfD of “far-right fantasies” and systematic exclusion without even mentioning his own party’s recent excesses of exclusion. This is not a presentation of facts; it is moral self-immunization. People with Special Needs: Under SPD Social Affairs Minister Grimm-Benne and the Previous Coalition, Years of High Hurdles Without EndWillingmann warns that the AfD would worsen the situation for people with special needs. The reality under the previous governing parties (CDU/SPD/FDP) looks like this: processing times for severely disabled persons’ ID cards average eight months – significantly longer than in many other states. Saxony-Anhalt ranks last nationwide in the employment rate of severely disabled people (3.7 percent instead of the legally required quota, compared with 4.7 percent nationwide). Many remain trapped in sheltered workshops, while transitioning into the regular labor market rarely succeeds. There have been years of disputes over the financing of integration assistance, terminations of framework agreements, transitional regulations that were struck down by the courts, and service providers that had to restrict services because funding was lacking or negotiations had stalled. Accessibility remains inadequate in many places – stairs, a lack of toilets, problems with public transportation.The AfD wants to end inclusion in mainstream schools and strengthen special schools – for advocates of inclusive education, this is a step backwards and contradicts the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities according to the interpretation of many experts. But the claim that everything was rosy under the previous parties and that only the AfD would bring deterioration is simply false. These problems are home-grown and have been known for a long time. Academic Freedom and Culture War: The Pot Calling the Kettle BlackWillingmann, who likes to portray himself as a defender of academic freedom and has repeatedly been ranked as one of the best science ministers, warns of AfD interference. The AfD does indeed want to push back research directions it dislikes through target agreements. At the same time, Corona policy showed how quickly science can be instrumentalized to serve the political line – and how dissenting voices were marginalized. “Hostility to science” is a flexible accusation that can be pinned on one’s opponent whenever convenient.As for the churches: The AfD wants to strip the major churches of their state privileges. The churches themselves often took clear positions during and after the Corona years – and in doing so chose political sides. Willingmann’s outrage appears selective. The Moral Preacher with a Short MemoryWith 9.3 percent, Armin Willingmann produced a result that leaves the SPD in Saxony-Anhalt even further on the sidelines. Instead of self-criticism, there comes the grand performance of fear and protection. He argues against the AfD program while concealing the massive exclusionary practices of his own party and government during the Corona years, as well as the very real deficiencies in the participation of people with disabilities under the previous coalition.“Do not be afraid!” rings hollow from the mouths of those whose political camp treated the unvaccinated for years as a risk and a nuisance. The density of disinformation lies not only in the blanket demonization of the AfD, but above all in the systematic amnesia regarding their own actions. Anyone denouncing division should first look in the mirror – or at least at Saxony-Anhalt’s Corona regulations from 2021/2022. The savior offering himself here lost his credibility on exclusion and division a long time ago.
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